GMail Tips: Access Contacts easily when composing messages

Sometimes you need to access your lists of contacts when composing your e-mails without jumping back and forth ad nauseum between GMail and Contacts. This is another one of those useful but too subtle to notice GMail interface features but it works well once you know about it.

1. Click on the little grey "To" labeling the "To Field"; it is an actual link.
2. You will get a popup of your Contacts list. Then you can:
• Click on people's names to select them for sending mail.
• Click on the drop-down group listing to select a sub-group of people to sift through.
• Click on "All" or "None" to send mail to the entirety of whichever group is selected.
• Click on names and then click on "Save as Group..." to add a group label to them; useful for quicker future searches, and quickly sending mail to the entire group.

That should help your workflow.