Create and Save your Canned message
- Click to compose an email. Type your message which you want to insert later in one click, itโll be your canned response
- Click on the small down arrow in the corner as shown in screenshot step number 3
- Click on Canned Responses. Then click on "New Canned Response".
- Give your canned response a name. And finally, click OK to save.
Gmail Canned Response FAQs
No, gmail does not support variables, so you can not put something like {{firstname}} and expect gmail to populate it from your recipient name, this will be a great feature though.
Canned response is still a lab which are not supported by google support, we would suggest you to turn your gmail labs off and on and see if it works for you.
you can create predefined messages as shown above in Google Workspace or Gmail which works well for basic template needs, for advance template needs you should consider application at google apps marketplace
Yes, you can create a filter based on your criteria and apply a canned response to it, this will give you auto responder functionality
No, though you can access your Gmail emails in MS Outlook via IMAP or Google Sync tool, but canned responses only work from within Gmail on web.
Yes, it will work even if you use Microsoft Outlook with your Gmail, because each email first hits your Gmail and will trigger your autoresponse.
It only works within Gmail, not on phone, but there are some third party tools which you may consider as they work on phones too, we would recommend you to explore google apps marketplace
Unfortunately not, gmail does not provide this functionality yet of adding attachments in predefined messages, but you may consider inserting google drive links to make it work
No, there are keyboard shortcuts in Gmail for email actions and you can see them by pressing SHIFT + Q in your Gmail, but gmail does not support keyboard shortcut for canned responses yet