Email, Messaging, & Video Calls > Email How to Pick Recipients From Your Address Book in Gmail Use your Gmail contacts list to quickly send messages By Heinz Tschabitscher Heinz Tschabitscher Writer University of Vienna A former freelance contributor who has reviewed hundreds of email programs and services since 1997. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on December 30, 2021 Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Email Gmail Yahoo! Mail What to Know Open new or existing message, select To, Cc, or Bcc, choose a contact from the Select contacts window, and select Insert.Remove a selected recipient by deselecting the box beside the name. Using a contact list to pick the recipients of an email is helpful when adding several people to the email. Select as many recipients and groups as you like, then add them to the email to compose a message to those contacts. How to Hand-Pick Recipients to Email in Gmail Gmail makes it easy to select a contact to email. As you type an email address in a message, Gmail auto-suggests the name and email address. However, there's another way to pick which contacts to email, and it's by using your address book. And you start with a new message, or reply or forward an existing message. In the message window, select either To, Cc, or Bcc, depending on how you want to send the message to the recipients. In the Select contacts window, choose the recipients to include in the email. Scroll through your address book to select contacts or use the search box. To remove a contact, clear the check box next to the entry. Select Insert when you're done. Compose the email. Send it when you're ready. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. Thank you for signing up! Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit