Gmail in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself

Autorentext
Michael Miller has written more than 150 nonfiction books over the past two decades. His best-selling titles include Sams Teach Yourself Spotify in 10 Minutes, Computer Basics: Absolute Beginner’s Guide, and Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource.

Mr. Miller has established a reputation for practical advice, technical accuracy, and an unerring empathy for the needs of his readers. For more information about Mr. Miller and his writing, visit his website at www.molehillgroup.com or follow him on Twitter @molehillgroup.

Klappentext

Gmail is Google's free web-based email service. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2004, Gmail went public in 2007 and is now the most widely-used email provider with more than 425 million users worldwide. Google has revamped Gmail considerably over the past year -- adding content-specific tabs, folders, to-do lists, Google+ Hangouts, and more useful features. This book fills the need for a Gmail user manual.

Sams Teach Yourself Gmail in 10 Minutes covers all the aspects of reading, sending, and managing email on the Gmail site as well as on mobile platforms. This book is completely rewritten for the latest version of Gmail.

As part of the Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes series, this book is part reference and mostly tutorial. The book takes a task-oriented approach to using Gmail. You'll learn Gmail in a series of easy, 10-minute lessons that cut past the fluff and tell you exactly how to get the job done.

Zusammenfassung
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

Inhalt
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 …