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

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents   Introduction     1   1   Essential Gmail     5 Sending Email     6 Formatting Your Email     7 Saving Drafts     8 Spellchecking Your Email    8 Sending Attachments     9 Setting a Vacation Response     10 Receiving Email     11 Archiving Email     12 Starring Email     12 Filtering Messages     13 Deleting Messages     15 Searching Your Email     15 Advanced Searching     16 Checking Sent Email     17 Creating Contacts     18 Sending Mail to Contacts     19 Creating Groups of Contacts     20 Editing a Contact     20 Using Labels     21 Reading Your Buzz     21 Commenting on Buzz     22 Getting Buzz in Your Inbox     23 Posting Some Buzz     24 Posting Some Buzz via Email     25 Using Chat     25 Contents Starting a Chat Session     25 Using Emoticons in Chat     27 Using Gmail Labs     27   2   Signing Up for Gmail     29 Using an Acceptable Browser    30 Creating a Gmail Account     31 Signing In to Gmail     36 Getting a Tour of Gmail     37 Getting Email     41 Replying to Email     43 Going Mobile     44 Setting Your Picture    48 Creating a Profile     51   3   Composing Your Mail     55 Gmail’s Capabilities     55 Composing Email     55 Spellchecking Your Email    56 Adding Cc’s and Bcc’s     57 Setting Text Size     58 Bolding, Italicizing, and Underlining Text     59 Setting Fonts     61 Creating Bulleted and Numbered Lists     62 Indenting Text     64 Sending Links in Email     65 Sending Plain Text    66 Working Offline     66 Setting Out of Office or Vacation Responses    71 Saving a Draft of Your Mail     73 Sending Attachments     73   4   Reading Your Mail 75 Working in the Inbox     75 Reading Mail     75 Searching Your Mail     77 Displaying Only Unread Mail     78 Deleting Mail     80 Replying to Mail     81 Reading Your Sent Mail     82 Starring Mail    83 Handling Gmail Conversations     84 Forwarding Mail    86 Archiving Mail     87 Reporting Spam     88 Checking Your Mail     88 Muting Conversations     89 Filtering Your Mail     90 Editing or Deleting a Filter     92   5   Organizing People Using Contacts and Groups     95 All About Contacts     95 Working with Contacts    95    Creating a Contact     98    Emailing a Contact from a Contact Page     99    Emailing a Contact Using Autocomplete     99    Moving Contacts from All Contacts to My Contacts     100    Editing a Contact     101    Deleting a Contact     102    Setting a Contact’s Photo     103    Deleting Duplicate Contacts     106 Searching Contacts    107 Importing Contacts     108    Creating a .csv File     109 Using Existing Groups     111 Creating a Group     112 Emailing a Group     113 Deleting a Group    114   6   Organizing Gmail Using Labels and Tasks     115 Using Labels     115    Applying Labels to Messages     116    Removing Labels from Messages     117    Creating New Labels     118    Sorting Mail by Labels     120    Editing Labels     121    Organizing Labels     122    Deleting Labels     123    Changing Label Colors     124    Searching Using Labels     125 Moving Mail Between Labels     127 Adding Multiple Labels to a Message    127 Using Tasks     128    Creating a Task     130    Create Subtasks     131    Checking Off Tasks     132    Moving a Task     133    Printing Tasks     134   7   Getting Some Buzz in Gmail     135 Starting the Buzz     136 Following People in Buzz     137 Reading Some Buzz     139 Commenting on Buzz     139 Editing Your Comments     142 Deleting Your Comments     143 Liking Posts     144 Emailing Posts     145 Using Buzz with Mobile Phones     146 Reading Every Post from a Particular Person    147 Searching Buzz     148 Muting Buzz Posts     149 Blocking Posters    150 Seeing Who You’re Following     151 Finding More People to Follow     152 “Unfollowing” People    153 Reporting Abuse     153   8   Posting Your Buzz     155 All About Posting Buzz    155 Writing Some Buzz     155 Making Posts Public     157 Making Posts Private    158 Replying Privately to Posts (@ Replies)     159 Getting Buzzed in Your Inbox     160 Editing Your Posts     162 Posting by Email     163 Posting Privately by Email     164 Getting to Know Your Followers     166 Posting Links to Online Articles to Buzz     166 Posting Photos to Buzz     169 Adding Captions to Your Photos     171 Keeping Your Photos Private     172 Posting Videos to Buzz     173   9   Using Chat     175 How Chat Enhances the Gmail Experience     175 Displaying a Chat Status     175 Displaying a Custom Chat Status    177 Posting Your Chat Status on Buzz     179 Making Your Chat Status on Buzz Private     180 Adding People to Your Chat List     181 Getting Approval to Chat with Someone     181 Approving Someone Else’s Chat Invitations    182 Starting a Chat     182 Chatting with Someone     183 Chatting in Free-standing Windows     185 Using Emoticons in Chats     186 Ending Chat Sessions     187 Chatting in a Group    188 Blocking People     189 Adding Videos to a Chat Session     189 Installing Video and Voice Chat     191 Using Chat History     192 Turning Off Chat History     193   10   Advanced Gmail     195 Using Gmail Labs     195 Turning Off Labs in an Emergency     196 Adding Google Gadgets     197 Authenticating Mail from Known Senders     198 Using Custom Keyboard Shortcuts     199 Changing the Default Text Styling     200 Adding a Google Calendar     201 Coordinating Google Docs     202 Hiding Inbox Labels    204 Forwarding Mail Automatically     205 Using Your Email Program with POP     207 Using Your Email Program with IMAP     208 Troubleshooting Gmail     209    I Can’t Get into My Account     209    My Messages Are Missing     211    My Messages Are Not Being Downloaded by POP or IMAP     211    Chat Doesn’t Appear in Gmail     212    Attachments Don’t Download     213    I Get a Message About My Browser’s “Cookie Functionality”     214   Index     215