If you click your settings "gear" in the top right, there is a help option which allows you to search for many help articles; most of them well written. Searching for "labs" yields this result, which I hope explains it well enough for you: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/29418?hl=en
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Richard Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a newbie tech challenged senior. What/where is 'Labs'? > > Thanks. > > REC > > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Keith Bainbridge <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ** >> On Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:13:29 AM UTC-4, Ros Lamb wrote; >> >> and On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 02:34:19 +1100, Jim Carney <[email protected]> >> relayed: >> >> use my Gmail account a lot to communicate on mailing lists. On most lists >> users are asked to trim mails before posting. With these changes, what used >> to take merely a few seconds is now a case of deleting as much as I can see >> then the next chunk that appears...then the next...then the next....then >> the next. Tedious and time wasting don't go near covering this. >> >> >> >> In LABS there is a facility that allows you to highlight text and include >> ONLY that text in your reply >> >> Hope this helps >> >> -- >> >> Keith BAINBRIDGE >> >> 0447 667 468 >> >> >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
