Google Gmail Online: Professional training

Par Rémy Lentzner

Welcome to Gmail, the free email service of the Google family. This book introduces you to the work environment with its different displays and how to receive and send emails. You'll learn how to search and filter messages efficiently with keywords. The settings will help you to better organize your work. You'll learn good practices for sending messages to various recipients. Gmail and Calendar bring more to decide appointments in a collaborative environment. As for Hangouts that enhances instant messaging and video conferencing. Google Gmail will pleasantly surprise you with its features to organize your daily work better.
Enjoy reading

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Remylent
• Date de sortie: 5 mars 2021
• ISBN: 9782490275458

Aperçu du livre

Chapter 1

The working environment

Before exchanging mails with other people, you need to create your Google Account with information editable later. Once it is done, you can send and receive messages.

With Gmail, the settings menu is particularly important. It has many features that will help you in your daily work. This menu is accessed by a gear-like icon on the right side of the window.

When you click on this icon, choose Settings / See all settings to see Gmail's features. After changing any parameter, be sure to click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.

1.1 Creating your account

A Google Account is a group of information that identifies you. The most important data will be your first name, last name and mail address.

In your Internet browser, search for Google Gmail, then https://www.google.com/gmail/about/ that will show you the first homepage, as shown in figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1 : The Google Gmail homepage

Then click on the blue Create an account button and fill in the requested information (figure 1.2).

Figure 1.2 : Creating account

Google asks you to enter a first name, a last name and a password. Controls will be made to check your information.

After clicking the Next button, Google asks you to fill your phone number that will be verified by SMS. Then, the gender and other data will be asked.

Figure 1.3 : Third step

Google will finally ask you to validate some questions and after a few screens of information, you will be able to discover the workspace, as shown in figure