Sams Teach Yourself Gmail in 10 Minutes, Second Edition, gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. Work through its 10-minute lessons to make the most of the world’s most powerful and popular email system! This book will show you how to send and receive email from any web browser or smartphone using Gmail. You’ll learn how to send pictures and other file attachments, add a signature to your outgoing messages, and customize Gmail for your own personal use. You’ll even learn how to create and organize your Gmail contacts! 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, send, receive, read, forward, and reply to emails Format your email to be more attractive--and effective Include pictures, web links, and file attachments Add an email signature to all your messages Organize stored messages and flag important ones Work with Gmail offline Store information about people, businesses, and organizations Automate how Gmail handles specific messages Use Vacation Responder to tell contacts you’re away Customize Gmail’s appearance and behavior Deal with annoying spam Participate in free Hangout video chats Use Gmail on your smartphone or tablet

Table of Contents:
Introduction     1 What You Need to Know to Use This Book     2 About the Sams Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes Series     2 Special Sidebars     2 Chapter 1: How Gmail Works--And What It Does     3 What Is Gmail?      3 How Does Web-Based Email Work?      4 What Makes Gmail Different from Other Web-Based Email Services?      5 No Folders     6 Conversations     6 Storage     7 Gmail Today     7 Summary     9 Chapter 2: Creating and Signing In to a Gmail Account     11 Signing Up for a Gmail Account     11 Signing In to Gmail     14 Summary     15 Chapter 3: Navigating Gmail     17 Navigating the Inbox     17 Managing Messages     18 Reading and Sending Messages     19 Using the Navigation Sidebar     20 Accessing Other Gmail Features     21 Summary     23 Chapter 4: Receiving and Reading Email     25 Reading an Email Message     25 Replying to a Message     27 Reply to the Original Sender     27 Reply to All     28 Forwarding a Message     28 Printing a Message     29 Deleting a Message     30 Viewing and Managing Deleted Messages     31 Viewing an Email Conversation     31 Summary     32 Chapter 5: Sending Email     33 Composing a New Email Message     33 Selecting Recipients from the Contacts List     35 Copying Others on a Message     36 Working with Draft Messages     37 Checking Your Spelling     37 Summary     38 Chapter 6: Formatting Email Messages     39 Applying Text Formatting     39 Applying Paragraph Formatting     41 Inserting Web and Email Links     42 Adding Emoji     44 Summary     45 Chapter 7: Working with Pictures and File Attachments     47 Inserting a Picture into a New Email Message     47 Attaching a File to a New Email Message     49 Viewing Pictures in Email Messages     50 Downloading Files Attached to Email Messages     53 Summary     55 Chapter 8: Creating an Email Signature     57 Creating a New Signature     57 Changing or Removing Your Signature     59 Summary     59 Chapter 9: Working with Contacts and Contact Groups     61 Viewing Your Contacts     61 Creating a New Contact     63 Editing or Deleting a Contact     66 Creating a Contact Group     66 Adding a Contact to a Contact Group     67 Sending a Message to a Contact or Contact Group     68 Summary     69 Chapter 10: Organizing Your Gmail Messages     71 Organizing by Tab     71 Viewing Messages on a Tab     72 Moving Messages from One Tab to Another     73 Choosing Which Tabs to Display     73 Marking Important Messages     74 Organizing with Stars     75 Organizing with Labels     76 Labeling a Message     76 Creating a New Label     77 Changing Label Colors     78 Viewing Labeled Messages     78 Managing Your Labels     79 Archiving Old Messages     80 Summary     81 Chapter 11: Searching in Gmail     83 Conducting a Basic Search     83 Conducting an Advanced Search     84 Using Search Operators     86 Summary     88 Chapter 12: Using Gmail Filters     89 Creating a Filter     89 Filtering Messages Like an Existing Message     90 Creating a Filter from a Search     92 Managing Your Filters     93 Summary     94 Chapter 13: Working Offline     95 Installing the Gmail Offline App     95 Navigating Gmail Offline     96 Reading Messages Offline     98 Composing Messages Offline     99 Summary     100 Chapter 14: Using Gmail When You’re on Vacation     101 Enabling Gmail’s Vacation Responder     101 Forwarding Your Gmail to Another Account     103 Checking and Sending Gmail on the Road     104 Summary     104 Chapter 15: Setting Up Gmail for Other Email Accounts     105 Using Gmail to Retrieve Email from Other Accounts     105 Reading Gmail in Another Email Program     108 Configuring Gmail for POP Mail     109 Configuring Gmail for IMAP Mail     110 Configuring Your Other Email Program     111 Forwarding Your Gmail to Another Account     111 Importing Contacts and Emails from Other Accounts     112 Summary     114 Chapter 16: Customizing Gmail     115 Customizing the Gmail Interface     115 Configuring Inbox Tabs     115 Changing the Display Density     116 Applying a Theme     117 Configuring Other Gmail Settings     118 General     118 Labels     120 Inbox     120 Accounts and Import     121 Filters     121 Forwarding and POP/IMAP     121 Chat     122 Web Clips     122 Labs     122 Offline     122 Themes     122 Editing Your Profile Information     122 Changing Your Profile Picture     124 Summary     125 Chapter 17: Dealing with Spam     127 How Google Deals with Spam     127 Reporting a Message as Spam     127 Removing a Legitimate Message from Your Spam List     128 Permanently Deleting Messages from Your Spam List     129 How Google Guards Against Malware     129 Summary     130 Chapter 18: Managing Tasks with Gmail     131 Viewing Gmail’s Tasks List     131 Creating a Task     132 Completing and Deleting Tasks     134 Working with Multiple Tasks Lists     134 Emailing a Tasks List     135 Printing a Tasks List     136 Summary     136 Chapter 19: Chatting in Hangouts     137 Participating in a Text Hangout     137 Participating in a Video Hangout     139 Summary     141 Chapter 20: Using Gmail on Mobile Devices     143 Using Gmail on the Go     143 Using Gmail’s iPhone App     144 Reading Email     144 Viewing Other Email     147 Sending Email     148 Using Gmail’s iPad App     150 Reading Email     151 Viewing Other Email      152 Sending Email     152 Using Gmail’s Android App     153 Reading Email     154 Viewing Other Email     156 Sending Email     157 Summary     159 Chapter 21: Using Gmail with Google+     161 How Gmail Integrates with Google+     161 Sharing Gmail Photo Attachments on Google+     162 Viewing and Responding to Google+ Posts from Gmail     164 Messaging Between Google+ and Gmail     165 Emailing Google+ Connections     165 Reading Google+ Messages in Gmail     167 Turning Off the Gmail/Google+ Integration     168 Summary     169 Appendix A: Troubleshooting Gmail Problems     171 You’re Unable to Log In to Your Account     171 Resetting Your Password     172 Resetting Your Username     172 Someone Has Hijacked Your Account     173 Gmail Is Slow or Unresponsive     173 You’re Receiving Someone Else’s Emails     175 Someone Mistyped the Address     175 You’re Bcc’d on a Message     176 You’re Being Spammed     176 The Message Was Sent but Not Received     176 Messages Appear to Be Missing     178 You Accidentally Deleted an Important Message     179 All Messages Are Sent to the Trash     180 Legitimate Email Is Marked as Spam     180 Not All Labels Are Displayed     180 Messages Aren’t Displaying Properly     181 You Can’t Download File Attachments     181 You Can’t Send an Attachment     182 You Receive a Phishing Message     183 You Receive a Message About Cookies     184 Summary     184 Index     185