Gmail in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself (2nd Edition)

215 Pages·2014·5.24 MB·English

by  Michael Miller

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Sams Teach Yourself Gmail™ in 10
Minutes
Second Edition
Michael Miller
800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240
Sams Teach Yourself Gmail™ in 10 Minutes, Second
Edition
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ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33839-7
ISBN-10: 0-672-33839-4
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First Printing October 2014
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Contents
Introduction
What You Need to Know to Use This Book
About the Sams Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes Series
Special Sidebars
1 How Gmail Works—And What It Does
What Is Gmail?
How Does Web-Based Email Work?
What Makes Gmail Different from Other Web-Based Email Services?
No Folders
Conversations
Storage
Gmail Today
Summary
2 Creating and Signing In to a Gmail Account
Signing Up for a Gmail Account
Signing In to Gmail
Summary
3 Navigating Gmail
Navigating the Inbox
Managing Messages
Reading and Sending Messages
Using the Navigation Sidebar
Accessing Other Gmail Features
Summary
4 Receiving and Reading Email
Reading an Email Message
Replying to a Message
Reply to the Original Sender
Reply to All
Forwarding a Message
Printing a Message
Deleting a Message
Viewing and Managing Deleted Messages
Viewing an Email Conversation
Summary
5 Sending Email
Composing a New Email Message
Selecting Recipients from the Contacts List
Copying Others on a Message
Working with Draft Messages
Checking Your Spelling
Summary
6 Formatting Email Messages
Applying Text Formatting
Applying Paragraph Formatting
Inserting Web and Email Links
Adding Emoji
Summary
7 Working with Pictures and File Attachments
Inserting a Picture into a New Email Message
Attaching a File to a New Email Message
Viewing Pictures in Email Messages
Downloading Files Attached to Email Messages
Summary
8 Creating an Email Signature
Creating a New Signature
Changing or Removing Your Signature
Summary
9 Working with Contacts and Contact Groups
Viewing Your Contacts
Creating a New Contact
Editing or Deleting a Contact
Creating a Contact Group
Adding a Contact to a Contact Group
Sending a Message to a Contact or Contact Group
Summary
10 Organizing Your Gmail Messages
Organizing by Tab
Viewing Messages on a Tab
Moving Messages from One Tab to Another
Choosing Which Tabs to Display
Marking Important Messages
Organizing with Stars
Organizing with Labels
Labeling a Message
Creating a New Label
Changing Label Colors
Viewing Labeled Messages
Managing Your Labels
Archiving Old Messages
Summary
11 Searching in Gmail
Conducting a Basic Search
Conducting an Advanced Search
Using Search Operators
Summary
12 Using Gmail Filters
Creating a Filter
Filtering Messages Like an Existing Message
Creating a Filter from a Search
Managing Your Filters
Summary
13 Working Offline
Installing the Gmail Offline App
Navigating Gmail Offline
Reading Messages Offline
Composing Messages Offline
Summary
14 Using Gmail When You’re on Vacation
Enabling Gmail’s Vacation Responder
Forwarding Your Gmail to Another Account
Checking and Sending Gmail on the Road
Summary
15 Setting Up Gmail for Other Email Accounts
Using Gmail to Retrieve Email from Other Accounts
Reading Gmail in Another Email Program
Configuring Gmail for POP Mail
Configuring Gmail for IMAP Mail
Configuring Your Other Email Program
Forwarding Your Gmail to Another Account
Importing Contacts and Emails from Other Accounts
Summary
16 Customizing Gmail
Customizing the Gmail Interface
Configuring Inbox Tabs
Changing the Display Density
Applying a Theme
Configuring Other Gmail Settings
General
Labels
Inbox
Accounts and Import
Filters
Forwarding and POP/IMAP
Chat
Web Clips
Labs
Offline
Themes
Editing Your Profile Information
Changing Your Profile Picture
Summary
17 Dealing with Spam
How Google Deals with Spam
Reporting a Message as Spam
Removing a Legitimate Message from Your Spam List
Permanently Deleting Messages from Your Spam List
How Google Guards Against Malware
Summary
18 Managing Tasks with Gmail
Viewing Gmail’s Tasks List
Creating a Task
Completing and Deleting Tasks
Working with Multiple Tasks Lists