This week’s video tip is a HelpMeRick.com first…it involves 3 videos to cover the topic of Gmail. Directly above each video below, I give a short synopsis of the videos contents. The more I use it, the more impressed I am with Gmail. If you currently use Gmail, don’t be afraid to watch these videos as you might pick up a tip or two yourself.
Google offers a good Help section covering their email system, and you can find it by clicking here. My short video series here are meant to just get you started quickly and give you the highlights of this email system.
Anyone who currently use Gmail and has some tips to offer, please post them below.
Gmail How-to Video – Part I
This video gives you an overview of the Gmail system, how to send an email, print an email, read an email, reply to an email, use the contacts list (address book) and attach a file to an email.
Gmail How-to Video – Part II
In this second video, I demonstrate how to retrieve your outside email from other Internet providers or domain email into Gmail, use labels and filters, explain the Archive funciton, spam filtering and Gmail conversations (a feature that may be worth moving to Gmail all by itself.)
Gmail How-to Video – Part III
In my final video installment, I go over some of the more advanced funcitons of Gmail including setting a vacation message, creating a signature, searching your mail (another stellar feature that may convince you to move), and some of the new stuff coming from Google Labs.
How to use multiple signatures in Gmail without add-ons or tweaks – Video Tip
Gmail adds MORE functionality to Labels – Video Tip
Creating an email group in Gmail – Video Tip
My first year with Gmail
Gmail convertee
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Nice tutorials, I learned a couple of tricks from you. Do you know how to save pictures, sent to me in gmail, to my iphoto
Thanks. You need to save the pictures from email into a folder that iPhoto monitors. Check out my tip here that might help.
Hi,
Not sure if you can help me but I’ll ask anyway.
Using windows XP if I wanted to email a file I’d right click on the file and it gave me an option to send to email recipient. If you click on that it would open up my aol email and have the file attached for me ready to send.
I am new to windows 7 and I can’t figure out how to attach a file to aol email. Any help would be much apprreciated.
Thanks
If you are using AOL’s web based email, you won’t be able to do the RIGHT click trick any longer. Instead, click the “Attach” button in AOL (usually a paper clip), then navigate and click on your file.
Thank you Rick!
i just tried it and it worked. Simple explanation but I had no clue. You are the first person among many I’ve asked that understood my question. I Really appreciate your help!
Bill
You are welcome…glad to help and please keep coming back and bring your friends!
We spoke last week when you were on KAFM . I had questions about using G-mail with Outlook. You suggested I eliminate Outlook and use only G-mail. I’m not sure how it got set up this way in the first place. You told me to go to your web site to find the way to remove Outlook. Were do I find it on your site?
Thank you.
Hello Tony. We referred you to the site for finding out how to use Gmail…to remove Outlook from your system, go to the Control Panel and Add/Remove Programs (Programs and Features)
I just upgraded to Windows 7. Everything is fine and I might add I have outlook 97 and it works fine. However I cannot use Gmail through Google now? How can I fix that?
Rick, lately I have been unable to forward any emails that have pictures in them. When I hit the forward button, the text remains in the email, but the pictures are replaced with little tiny red x’s. What has changed?
Gmail does not have the advantages of Outlook in that Outlook uses Word applications such as auto capitalization, auto spell check and one can even get dictionary definitions. I often forget to use spell check in Gmail and later regret it. No problem in Outlook. When will Gmail catch up?
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For the past two days, all of my emails that contain pictures have little boxes indicating there are pictures, but I am unable to see the pictures. How do I fix this?
I am using Windows 7. I have 2 issues.
I use Google and gmail all the time.
I had Bing pop up on my computer. I couldn’t get rid of it. I finally restored my computer to an earlier date and got rid of it. Is there another way to get rid of it.
I get on Craigslist quit a bit and now if I try to contact a person through the anonymous contact I am getting the Microsoft email not the gmail email program I was getting before. How can I change that?
Hello. To make Gmail your default email, use the Gmail Notifier. Here’s how. For the Bing question, it usually comes around as an add-on to other programs or updates you may have downloaded…you can easily uninstall it from the “uninstall a program” in your Control Panel. Thanks!
No video’s to see..
You must need to update your browser and/or Flash player then, because all 3 videos are right above these comments.
Nice overview of G mail. I have used it for several years. Some good points and some not so good.
My main complaint is it is very hard (for me at least ) to get help from gmall
I get their FAQ page with several hundred entries. I can’t go throught all that. I never found a way to search nor just ask for help !!
The first couple of years with gmail I would get 30 to 60″ spam” emails and evr sinnce increased to 80 then 150 and a few days ago I got over 700 just overnight !!!!~!! Over 800 the next day or so !!
I tried to contact gmail to ask about it and could not as I outlined above.
About once a week or so their spam filter will list a site that is not spam and I have been getting for months or longer.
I also use Yahoo email and have been getting many error messages from them and I send in the report to them but nothings seems to change. Most are code 4, I also have many problems getting help from Yahoo !!
Your videos are nice but I wish there was a way to enlarge the picture. The web pages you show are way to small for my old eyes to read. Also the pictures are blurred–out of focus .
George
I too wish the videos could be a little larger and clearer, but unfortunately U.S. Internet speeds and costs dictate how good a video I can bring you. I’m thinking of offering DVD copies of all my how-to videos for sale, would you or anyone else be interested in that kind of product?
DVD’s might be interesting depending on cost.
Any plans to write a new book on computers ??
George
I have tried time and time to follow your instructions on EXPORT my address book from OE to gmail…..i can’t get past the window where i chose either Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book or
Text File (Comma Separated Value) when i highlight the later and click on EXPORT……it does nothing.
I am using Windows XP Home edition…..and OE 6.
Can u help me?
Darlene
This is usually due to the Outlook Express Address book not being your default address book. If you have Microsoft Outlook installed (part of Microsoft Office), uninstall it and then you should get the import/export function back again.