How to Find and Join a Google Groups Group

• If you joined or created the group relatively recently, choose Recent Groups on the main menu.
• If you access the group frequently, favorite the group by selecting it in My Groups and then clicking the group's Favorite Group icon. From now on, you can find the group quickly by choosing Favorite Groups on the main menu.

1. On the main menu, choose My Groups. Alternatively, you can search Recent Groups, All Groups, or Favorite Groups.
2. To narrow your search, drop down the Search box list and select what you want to search:
   • Group name contains: Use this text box to enter some or all of the group name.
   • Join Date: Use the From and To calendars to select a date range for when you joined the group.
   • Group Organization: Choose Within My Org to search only the groups that are part of your organization; choose Outside My Org to search only the groups that aren’t part of your organization; choose Any Organization to search for both types.
   • Email Subscription: Use this list to search based on the group's email subscription setting: Each Email, Digest, Abridged, None, or Any.
   • Group Managed By: Choose Myself to search only the groups you own or manage; otherwise, choose Anyone.
3. Click the Search button. Groups displays a list of groups that match your criteria.

How to join a group

For the last of these possibilities, there's not much you can do except wait to receive an invitation.

Joining a group directly

1. Click the Join Group button, shown. The Join Name dialog box appears, where Name is the group's name. The second figure here shows an example.
   You see the Join Group button for groups you can join directly.
   Fill in this dialog box to join the group.
2. If you don't want group members to view your G Suite profile, deselect the Link to My Google Account Profile check box.
3. If you elected to not link to your Google account in Step 2, the Display Name text box gets enabled, and you can use that text box to specify a different display name to use in this group.
4. Use the Subscription list to select how you want group emails delivered to you:
   • Don't send email updates: You receive no email messages from the group.
   • Send daily summaries: You receive up to 25 complete messages combined into a single email and delivered once per day.
   • Combined updates: You receive summaries of up to 150 messages combined into a single email and delivered once per day.
   • Every new message: You receive all the group's messages, emailed individually as they're posted to the group.
5. Click the Join Group button. Groups adds you as a member of the group.

Asking to join a group

1. Click the Ask to Join Group button, shown. The Ask to Join Name dialog box appears, where Name is the group's name. The second figure below shows an example.
   You see the Apply to Join Group button for groups you have to ask to join.
   Fill in this dialog box to ask to join the group.
2. If you don't want group members to view your G Suite profile, deselect the Link to My Google Account Profile check box.
3. If you elected to not link to your Google account in Step 2, the Display Name text box gets enabled, and you can use that text box to specify a different display name to use in this group.
4. Use the Subscription list to select how you want group emails delivered to you. See Step 4 in the previous section for the details about each option.
5. Use the Reason for Joining text box to offer one or more reasons why you should be allowed to join the group.
6. Click the Ask to Join button. Groups sends your request to the group, where it will be reviewed by the group's owners and/or managers and either approved or rejected.

How to leave a group

1. Open the group you want to leave.
2. In the main menu on the left side of the window, click the My Membership Settings tab.
3. Click the Leave Group button. The Leave Group button appears just below the Search bar. Groups asks you to confirm.
4. Click the Yes, Leave Group button. Groups revokes your group membership.