Initially, blind carbon copy, or bcc, was used to send a copy of a business letter to an individual or interested parties without their names appearing on the letter. The main purpose for using a ...

The term “carbon copy” comes from the process of copying handwritten or typed notes by inserting a piece of carbon paper between the document and a blank sheet of paper. This allowed the writer to ...

Learn how and when to send Bcc messages using Outlook. When you generate an email, you decide who receives it by adding contacts to the To and Cc controls. There’s also a third control called Bcc.

When I click New Email on the Home tab, Outlook opens a blank email message with the From and Bcc (blind carbon copy) fields visible and ready to fill in. Using the From dropdown, I can change ...

How to Hide CC & BCC in Gmail. Gmail doesn't automatically show the carbon copy and blind carbon copy fields in Gmail. They become active only once you use them when sending an email. These fields ...

In modern terms, the Cc field is used to send a copy of an email to one or more contacts (though it’s a bit redundant given that you can just as easily add multiple address to the “To” field ...

(MoneyWatch) Microsoft (MSFT) Outlook's BCC field -- shorthand for the last century's Blind Carbon Copy -- is a way to send an informational copy of a message to recipients without the folks in ...

Cc may be a computer-age term, but it has roots in the 1870s with paper copying techniques. Here's how to use cc and bcc in emails properly.