Sending the Same Message with Small Changes
When you want to send messages that are almost exactly the same to many people, but you want to make small changes, you could copy & paste and alter and send to individuals. Or you could use the Google Labs feature, Canned Responses.
Google Labs is found by clicking the icon of a green Lab beaker found on gmail’s upper right, between your address and Settings.
When you click on that, you find many experimental features, among them, Canned Responses.
When you enable it, it shows up in your Compose screen.
Then, you create the main message, leaving blank spaces where you want to add different words or numbers for different individuals.
This was a fairly complex message with many areas to add information, (marked in red) but I sent individual information out to over 30 people, and they liked getting private messages.
Here’s the menu I used -
You can have a number of different canned messages, and personalize them before sending them out.
