If you always get confused between Cc and Bcc, you are not alone. Many people get confused and think that these mean same in e-mail terminology. Cc and Bcc are fields that contain the list of the recipients of an email.

The Cc field is used when we want a second party to have a record of an email that is sent to the primary recipient and let the primary recipients have knowledge of this. The Bcc field is used when we want a third party to keep the record of an email sent to primary recipients, the recipients of Cc without their knowledge.

It’s important to understand the two terms separately to understand the difference properly. So, let’s start!

Carbon Copy (Cc)

Cc is the abbreviation of “Carbon Copy” and this option is mostly available at the header of our messages. Actually, we use this option at that time, when we want to send the same message at a time to more than one person.

You can see that below the option “To:” there is always an option “Cc:” in our sending or receiving mails. It means the carbon copy of that message, which we are sending to any person, can be send to other person or persons as well.

Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc)

Bcc is the abbreviation of “Blind Carbon Copy”. Bcc is also used for sending the same message to more than one people at a time. However, the specialty in this case is that, other receivers of same mail cannot view the Email addresses of those persons, who have received the same message from us through “Bcc:”

Let us now study the difference between Cc and Bcc with the help of comparison points shown below.

Full form

The CC and BCC fields when sending email work similarly. CC stands for “Carbon Copy,” while BCC stands for “Blind Carbon Copy.”

Working

In a recipient of Cc field is visible to the primary recipients of To: field, other recipients of Cc and recipients of Bcc field on the other hand a recipient of Bcc field is neither visible to recipients of To: field, nor to recipients of Cc field and not even to the other recipients of Bcc field.

Use

Cc is used to make the primary recipient more serious about the mail and Bcc is used when you don’t want to share the list of recipients with other recipients.

Sight

Receiver can see Cc but receiver cannot see Bcc.

Conclusion:

Cc and Bcc both have there equal importance and they should be used according to the requirement.