<p>On Thursday, Google announced three new features that have graduated from Gmail Labs: "Send and archive," "Quote selected text," and "Default reply to all." This is not a gradual rollout; you can use all three of them right now on Gmail.com.</p><p>The first feature lets you send an email and immediately archive it from both the compose screen and the reply screen. The second one lets you set up how your Default reply function works, again in both the Compose and Reply sections of Gmail.</p><p>Last but not least, the "Quote selected text" lets you highlight text and hit the reply button. This automatically takes the quoted text and inserts it into your reply email. I think this one is the most useful of all three:</p><p>As you can see, I've quoted the first sentence of Alex's email so that I can specifically reply to that part of it. This is great for long emails that you don't want to include in your replies to the sender, but still want to reference.</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/06/gmail-graduates-3-labs-features-send-and-archive-default-reply-to-all-and-quote-selected-text/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/06/gmail-labs-graduates/">3 Gmail Labs graduates land in your inbox to save you precious seconds</a> (VentureBeat)</p><p><a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/285495/scitech/technology/experimental-email-features-graduate-from-gmail-labs">Experimental email features graduate from GMail Labs</a> (GMA News)</p><p><a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/12/gmail-updated-with-three-nifty-features/">Gmail Updated With Three Nifty Features</a> (Ubergizmo)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dOrw8HeWs6KMLLMlpJhOYjXvhXB6M&ned=us">8 additional articles.</a></p>