Tired of typing the same reply every time someone sends you email with a common question? Compose your reply once and save the email as a template. You can also include your signature. Later, you can open the template and send it again with just a few clicks.
Note: Email templates are available only in Gmail on the web. Templates aren't available in Gmail mobile apps.
Enable templates
- Open Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings
See all settings.
- At the top, click Advanced.
- In the Templates section, select Enable.
- At the bottom, click Save Changes.
Create or change templates
Note: You can create up to 50 templates.
- Open Gmail and click Compose.
- In the Compose window, enter your template text.
- Click More
- Choose an option:
- To create a new template, click Save draft as template
- To change a previously saved template, click Save draft as template and under Overwrite Template, choose a template and click Save to overwrite it.
- To create a new template, click Save draft as template
- (Optional) To send an email, compose your message and click Send.
Insert templates
- Open Gmail and click Compose.
- Click More
- To insert a template, under Insert template, choose a saved template to insert in your email.
- Compose the rest of your message and click Send.
Delete templates
- Open Gmail and click Compose.
- Click More
- To delete a template, click Delete template, choose the template you want to delete, and click Delete.
Automate sending email with templates
- Open Gmail.
- In the search box at the top, click Show search options
.
- Enter your search criteria. If you want to check that your search worked correctly, see what emails show up by clicking Search.
- At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter.
- Choose what you’d like the filter to do.
- Click Create filter.