Guidelines

Should I use CC or BCC in email?

Should I use CC or BCC in email?

If you want a “To” recipient to know other important people are aware of the correspondence, use “Cc.” If you want to maintain an inclusive email chain, use either “To” or “Cc.” If you are sending an impersonal email or one with a large mailing list, use the “Bcc.”

What is CC and BCC in email with example?

Carbon Copy) – Put the email address(es) here if you are sending a copy for their information (and you want everyone to explicitly see this) Bcc… ( Blind Carbon Copy) – Put the email address here if you are sending them a Copy and you do not want the other recipients to see that you sent it to this contact.

What is the point of BCC in email?

BCC, which stands for blind carbon copy, allows you to hide recipients in email messages. Addresses in the To: field and the CC: (carbon copy) field appear in messages, but users cannot see addresses of anyone you included in the BCC: field.

Is BCC really hidden?

Someone on the BCC list can see everything else, including the CC list and the contents of the email. However, the BCC list is secret—no one can see this list except the sender. If a person is on the BCC list, they’ll see only their own email on the BCC list.

Do you address the person you Cc?

The recipients listed in the “To” field are the direct addressees of your email message. These are the people to whom you are writing directly. “CC,” which stands for “carbon copy,” or even “courtesy copy,” is for anyone you want to keep in the loop but are not addressing directly.

When to use to, cc and BCC in emails?

– Different email fields should be used for different reasons – CC’s are for informing those related to the subject but not directly involved – Use BCC for broadcast email address privacy and certain internal emails – If you’re unsure about using BCC for an internal email, don’t use it and instead simply forward the sent email to your intended BCC person

What is purpose of BCC in email?

Bcc stands for “blind carbon copy,” and is a way of sending emails to multiple people without them knowing who else is getting the email. Any email addresses in the Bcc field will be invisible to everyone else on the email.

What happens when you BCC email?

BCC is used to send the same email to multiple recipients without revealing all of their email addresses.

  • You can create a BCC list by adding people in Gmail or copying and pasting from contacts in your Google account
  • Emails that are sent with BCC will be visible in Gmail’s “All Mail” section accessible through the left menu bar.

    • When to use CC in emails?

    In answer to your question, when you are cc’d in the email format it means someone who sent you an email has used the automatic carbon copy (Cc) in the address field for that message. This method of using the Cc in a message might indicate you are on a Distribution list.