I use labels intensively.. at times I tag a thread , lets say ABC

as the conversation gets more intense, each thread now has the label "ABC"- however suddenly a conversation could go off topic and has nothing to do with that catogory..ABC

How do remove an individual label within the threaded conversation ??

GMail, automatically assigned every thread on that conversation with the assigned label..but I have not figure out how to remove for a single strand..

any help ? suggestions ?? or is this just a feature that can't be turned off easily for a single strand ?

You could edit the subject to create a new conversation. Gmail only deals with messages as part of a conversation.

Ionut, its more of the inbound msg that sometimes goes off topic.. I dont see a way to edit subject line of an inbound msg

Click on "Reply" and then on "Edit subject".

If you have coloured labels you can just click the little x

I didn't know about the edit subject feature. Sweet. Thanks Ionut.

Ok – what am I missing ? Click on reply and edit subject is the easy part.. but that still does not remove the Label for the inbond msg.. the outboard msg becomes free b'coz of label change.. I also tried to "Save Now" after the Subject line was edited ..but that does not do nada..

If you edit the subject, you can reply to the off-topic message and create a new conversation. The off-topic message will still be a part of the old conversation.

There's no option to detach a message from a conversation or to apply labels to an individual message.