Gmail – In Gmail, how do you hide labels from the “Move To” dropdown menu

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I have several labels in the "Move To" dropdown menu, and I'd like to keep the labels but hide some of them. Advice?

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You can't. That menu holds all of your labels. The only way to remove a label from that list is to remove the label altogether.

If you're having trouble with finding your more important labels amongst a long list, I suggest changing your label name to have some sort of non-numeric character in the front. I do that with a handful of my labels to make sure they're at the top of the list.

So instead of

Joe

I have

!Joe

Now my "Joe" label is at the top rather than halfway down the list.

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I wrote a script to add to Google Scripts.

function removeLabel() {

    var labels = [];
    labels = GmailApp.getUserLabels();

    //Loop through all Labels
    for (var i = 0; i < labels.length; i++) {
        if (labels[i].getName().indexOf("WORD TO FIND IN LABEL NAME") > -1) {
            //If the WORD is found in label name - delete the label
            labels[i].deleteLabel();
        }
    }
}

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