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How to Use Gmail

In Gmail, you can send, receive, delete, and archive messages with an enormous storage capacity. This article helps you learn the basics of how to use Gmail.

How to Use Gmail
How to Use Gmail

In Gmail, you can send, receive, delete, and archive messages with an enormous storage capacity. This article will help you learn the basics of how to use Gmail.

What is Gmail?

Google operates Gmail, a free email service. It has integrations with Google Drive, YouTube, and Google Docs, among other Google products.

Gmail is included in Google Workspace, a collection of productivity software. Gmail serves as the central hub of Google Workspace, which is accessible to anyone with a free Google account. With paid Google Workspace memberships, Google additionally provides business-level features.

In addition, Gmail has a mobile app and Gmail Basic, an HTML version of the service.

Gmail is a great starting point if you have never had an email account before. It is dependable and free, and it offers 15 GB of storage for your communications. This 15 GB free allocation also covers all of your Google Photos, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard files, but they are not included in the storage capacity for messages. However, 15 GB of free storage is a respectable amount, and you can always purchase extra from Google.

Since your email is kept online, you may access it from any computer or device with an internet connection.

How to Get a Gmail Account

Select Create account on the Gmail website.

You could be given the option to select an account if previous Google accounts have been used with your browser. Select To access the sign-in screen, use a different account at the bottom.

Pick for me under Create an account.

Select Next after entering the necessary data.

Click I accept after reading Google's privacy statement.

You can see it more in Gmail Sign Up

How to Set up Gmail

You can customize your account following a perusal of the introductory content.

To add a photo that will be seen by other Gmail users, choose to Add a profile photo. Select Settings > Theme for colors, or Settings > Inbox Type for the layout, to modify the colors and layout of the Gmail interface.

To connect it to your new Gmail account if you have another email address, go to Options > See all settings > Accounts and Import > Import mail and contacts.

How to Use Gmail

Choose Compose to start writing a new Gmail message.

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To designate a message as significant, select the Star next to it.

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Select the checkbox next to the message, then choose Archive (the folder with a down arrow), or Delete to remove it from your inbox (the trashcan).

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In Gmail, a message is not immediately deleted after being sent to the trash. Select Trash from the left pane to enter your trash folder, then select Empty Trash now to permanently delete a message. You will know more with how to empty trash

Select your profile icon (or image) in the top-right corner and then click Sign out to exit Gmail.

How to Make Labels

Your inbox can be more easily managed with Gmail labels. When viewing a message, click the Label icon and select one of the available options or Create new to create your own labels.

How to Find Emails in Gmail

You can look for the message using the search bar located above your inbox in addition to utilizing labels. You may also search across all of your Gmail contacts to uncover specific people's correspondence.