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New MX Records for Using Gmail with Google Workspace

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Mail Exchange (MX) records, in simple English, tell the internet where to deliver your emails. These records enable email servers to know which mail servers are responsible for accepting incoming messages for a given domain. When you are using Gmail with your Google Workspace domain, Google provides you with a set of MX records in the format ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM and you need to add five such records to your domain. These MX records point incoming emails to Google’s mail servers, which then deliver the emails to your Gmail inbox. Priority Host / Mail Server 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM These MX records specify the priority and destination of email messages. The priority numbers indicate the order in which the email servers should be tried. When a sender sends an email to your domain, their email server will look up your domain’s MX records to determine where ...

How to Use Conditional Logic in Google Documents

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Conditional content allows you to customize your Google Docs template and generate different versions of the same document based on the user’s answers. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use conditional content in Google Docs using Document Studio , a Google add-on that automates document creation. If you are new here, please follow this step-by-step guide on how to generate documents from data in Google Sheets and Google Forms responses. Conditionally Display Content Let’s say you are a recruiter who wants to use a Google Docs template to send out job offer letters to candidates. You want to include specific information in the offer letter based on the candidate’s job title and location. The conditional statements that we would like to include in the document template are: Your office is located in San Francisco. Your offer letter should include a paragraph offering relocation benefits only to candidates who are located outside SF. If the candidate is offered an Ass...

How to Make Phone Numbers Callable in Google Sheets and Docs

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This tutorial explains how to make phone numbers clickable within Google Sheets, Slides and Google Docs. When someone clicks on the phone number link in your spreadsheet or this document, it will open the dialer on their mobile phone and initiate dialing of the specified phone number. How to Insert Clickable Phone Numbers in Web Pages Let’s start with the basics. If you click an email link on a webpage, it opens your default mail program. Similarly, you can make phone numbers on your website “callable” meaning when someone clicks on the phone number link, it will automatically launch the dialer on their mobile phone with the phone number filled in. You can use the tel protocol to convert a plain text phone number on a web page into a clickable telephone link. For instance, if you click this link on a mobile phone, it will open the phone dialer prefilled with the specified number. There’s no need to copy-paste numbers. How to Type Phone Numbers in Google Sheets It is a b...