 Welcome to Everyday Tech Tips. I'm your host, Shelly Reid, coming to you from the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project, or LSNTAP for short. This microcast will focus on quick tips and tricks that can be put into action to make your everyday work life easier. Let's get started. On today's episode of Everyday Tech Tips, we are discussing templates. In the office environment, templates are preset formats for documents so they don't have to be recreated each time. Today, we will discuss creating templates for email. Using an email template is very handy when you must send similar emails frequently. For example, I send a weekly email to a group with information that changes very little from week to week. We'll be in the Google workspace today, but fear not, I'll be back next week with directions for Office 365. To get started with templates in Gmail, we must first make sure that the templates are enabled. Click on the settings gear, and then see all settings. Go to the advance tab and look for the templates option. Make sure that the enable radio button is clicked and then save changes if needed. To create our first template, go to compose. Enter a subject and type in some text. Now go to the more options section, scroll to templates and then save draft as template and save as new template. Give your template a name and save. Now to see your template, open up a new email. Again, go to the options button, scroll to templates and then select your template. The template fills in the subject line and the body of the text. At this time, we cannot enter recipients into a template, but you could copy and paste a recipient list into the body of the email and then copy and paste it to the subject line when it's time to send. That's as simple as it is. You're now ready to use templates in Gmail. Be sure to see the show notes for step-by-step directions and tune in next week for directions on creating templates for Outlook. Have a great day!