How to Get Familiar With GMail
Gmail is an email service run by Google.com. Google ascertains that individuals who use Gmail get less spam through their email. Gmail also provides users with ample storage space, the ability to use Gmail chat, chat with contacts right in Gmail or via voice and video chat and access Gmail from a mobile device. Gmail also provides the ability for users to make regular telephone calls to landlines through the Google chat feature. Individuals who want to familiarize themselves with Google can do so through available tutorials.
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Familiarize yourself with Gmail by taking a Google tutorial. Google offers an interactive tutorial for beginners who wish to learn how to use their gmail features. Visit the Gmail site, and click on various areas of the screen. Text appears informing users how to use functions such as Gmail archive, reporting spam, how to delete and move emails, how to label emails which is similar to a folder function. Users can also explore using Gmail Chat and learn how to compose mail.
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Use a subscription site such as Lynda.com or Atomic Learning to familiarize yourself with the Gmail functions. Lynda.com's online training covers composing and sending messages, managing attachments, searching for messages, archiving versus deleting an email and changing the Gmail theme. More advanced topics cover managing contacts, sending and receiving chat messages, customizing and organizing your inbox and navigating through Gmail's help feature. Some of the training videos covering Gmail are free to users; however, most of them require some type of paid subscription. As of August 2011, monthly subscriptions begin at $25. Atomic Learning offers eLearning courses that feature very short tutorials, most of them under two minutes long. Besides the basics of using Gmail, this training site also offers training on how to change your account information such as your user name or password, creating filters and recovering deleted messages and configuring various settings such as customizing web clips or adding custom feeds. As of August 2011, an annual subscription costs $169.
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Familiarize yourself with the way Gmail works by watching videos available on the Internet. YouTube is a key source for videos. Visit the site and type "Gmail Tutorial" into the search box and choose from the many videos that pop up. If you want to avoid some of the comments that show up on YouTube, you can also view videos from smaller sites such as HelpMeRick.com which has Gmail guides for beginners via short videos.
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