1. Open your Inbox and scroll down the left to More to expand labels.

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2. Scroll down and click Create new label

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3. Click to enter a new label name:

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4. enter a new label name:

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5. Doubleclick to Nest label under a parent label

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6. Click Create

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7. Here's our new label May 

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8. Click May

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9. Click 3 dots

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10. With your mouse, hover over the colour arrow

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11. Click to select a label colour

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12. Now we're going to create a filter to this new label. Click the settings cog

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13. Click See all settings

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14. Click Filters and blocked addresses

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15. Scroll down and click Create a new filter

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16. Type an email address in the From section.

You could also filter by subject, words and more

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17. Click to select the email from the drop down

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18. Click Don't include chats to have only email go to the label

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19. Click Create filter

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20. With your mouse, hover Apply the label:

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21. Click Apply the label:

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22. Click the selected label

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23. Click Never send it to Spam

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24. Click Always mark it as important

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25. Click to ensure emails in this label always go to your primary inbox

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26. Click here to add any previous emails in your system to the same label automatically.

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27. Click Create filter

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28. Scroll and click May label

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29. Click settings cog again

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30. Click See all settings

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31. Click Labels

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32. Scroll down and click show if unread to only show the label if you have unread emails in there

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33. Click again show if unread

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34. Scroll up and click Filters and blocked addresses

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35. Scroll down and click to select an existing filter

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36. Click delete to remove a filter you no longer need

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37. Click OK

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38. That's it. You're done.

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