Sams teach yourself Gmail in 10 minutes

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holzner, Steven, Author.

Series:

Sams teach yourself

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gmail (Electronic resource).

Electronic mail systems.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 226 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Teach yourself Gmail in 10 minutes

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Sams Pub 2011

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Sams Teach Yourself Gmail in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to take complete control over your email–and communicate with anyone, anywhere–quickly and easily! Tips point out shortcuts and solutions Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls Notes provide additional information 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to… Create, format, send, read, and manage messages Save time with Gmail’s best productivity shortcuts Organize all your email with a few clicks Quickly find any message with Google’s powerful search tools Instantly create contacts and quickly send messages to them Deliver mass mailings to groups of contacts Stay connected with friends using built-in Google Buzz social networking Have instant online conversations with built-in Google Chat Improve email efficiency with automatic forwarding and vacation autoresponder Use Gmail even when you’re not connected to the Internet

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Essential Gmail

Sending Email

Formatting Your Email

Saving Drafts

Spellchecking Your Email

Sending Attachments

Setting a Vacation Response

Receiving Email

Archiving Email

Starring Email

Filtering Messages

Deleting Messages

Searching Your Email

Advanced Searching

Checking Sent Email

Creating Contacts

Sending Mail to Contacts

Creating Groups of Contacts

Editing a Contact

Using Labels

Reading Your Buzz

Commenting on Buzz

Getting Buzz in Your Inbox

Posting Some Buzz

Posting Some Buzz via Email

Using Chat

Starting a Chat Session

Using Emoticons in Chat

Using Gmail Labs

2 Signing Up for Gmail

Using an Acceptable Browser

Creating a Gmail Account

Signing In to Gmail

Getting a Tour of Gmail

Getting Email

Replying to Email

Going Mobile

Setting Your Picture

Creating a Profile

3 Composing Your Mail

Gmail's Capabilities

Composing Email

Adding Cc's and Bcc's

Setting Text Size

Bolding, Italicizing, and Underlining Text

Setting Fonts

Creating Bulleted and Numbered Lists

Indenting Text

Sending Links in Email

Sending Plain Text

Working Offline

Setting Out of Office or Vacation Responses

Saving a Draft of Your Mail

4 Reading Your Mail

Working in the Inbox

Reading Mail

Searching Your Mail

Displaying Only Unread Mail

Deleting Mail

Replying to Mail

Reading Your Sent Mail

Starring Mail

Handling Gmail Conversations

Forwarding Mail

Archiving Mail

Reporting Spam

Checking Your Mail

Muting Conversations

Filtering Your Mail

Editing or Deleting a Filter

5 Organizing People Using Contacts and Groups

All About Contacts

Working with Contacts

Creating a Contact.

Emailing a Contact from a Contact Page

Emailing a Contact Using Autocomplete

Moving Contacts from All Contacts to My Contacts

Deleting a Contact

Setting a Contact's Photo

Deleting Duplicate Contacts

Searching Contacts

Importing Contacts

Creating a.csv File

Using Existing Groups

Creating a Group

Emailing a Group

Deleting a Group

6 Organizing Gmail Using Labels and Tasks

Applying Labels to Messages

Removing Labels from Messages

Creating New Labels

Sorting Mail by Labels

Editing Labels

Organizing Labels

Deleting Labels

Changing Label Colors

Searching Using Labels

Moving Mail Between Labels

Adding Multiple Labels to a Message

Using Tasks

Creating a Task

Create Subtasks

Checking Off Tasks

Moving a Task

Printing Tasks

7 Getting Some Buzz in Gmail

Starting the Buzz

Following People in Buzz

Reading Some Buzz

Editing Your Comments

Deleting Your Comments

Liking Posts

Emailing Posts

Using Buzz with Mobile Phones

Reading Every Post from a Particular Person

Searching Buzz

Muting Buzz Posts

Blocking Posters

Seeing Who You're Following

Finding More People to Follow

"Unfollowing" People

Reporting Abuse

8 Posting Your Buzz

All About Posting Buzz

Writing Some Buzz

Making Posts Public

Making Posts Private

Replying Privately to Posts (@ Replies)

Getting Buzzed in Your Inbox

Editing Your Posts

Posting by Email

Posting Privately by Email

Getting to Know Your Followers

Posting Links to Online Articles to Buzz

Posting Photos to Buzz

Adding Captions to Your Photos

Keeping Your Photos Private

Posting Videos to Buzz

9 Using Chat

How Chat Enhances the Gmail Experience

Displaying a Chat Status.

Displaying a Custom Chat Status

Posting Your Chat Status on Buzz

Making Your Chat Status on Buzz Private

Adding People to Your Chat List

Getting Approval to Chat with Someone

Approving Someone Else's Chat Invitations

Starting a Chat

Chatting with Someone

Chatting in Free-standing Windows

Using Emoticons in Chats

Ending Chat Sessions

Chatting in a Group

Blocking People

Adding Videos to a Chat Session

Installing Video and Voice Chat

Using Chat History

Turning Off Chat History

10 Advanced Gmail

Turning Off Labs in an Emergency

Adding Google Gadgets

Authenticating Mail from Known Senders

Using Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Changing the Default Text Styling

Adding a Google Calendar

Coordinating Google Docs

Hiding Inbox Labels

Forwarding Mail Automatically

Using Your Email Program with POP

Using Your Email Program with IMAP

Troubleshooting Gmail

I Can't Get into My Account

My Messages Are Missing

My Messages Are Not Being Downloaded by POP or IMAP

Chat Doesn't Appear in Gmail

Attachments Don't Download

I Get a Message About My Browser's "Cookie Functionality"

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612768033

9781282768031

1282768034

9780132565158

0132565153

OCLC:

1027164804