OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Training & Documentation

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Getting Started Tour
Overview of how to compose and reply to e-mail, organize e-mail using stars, labels, and archive, and use the calendar feature.

Tour 2: Contacts, Tasks, and Chat Overview of contacts, tasks, and chat (instant messenging).

 

Why are replies piled together? Where are my replies?
•  Conversations

 

Where are labels? How do I organize e-mail without folders?
•  Labels

TU Student Employees ONLY - Your TU Exchange Account
Combining accounts or keeping them separate? All you need to know is here.

Configuring Outlook Express and Other Clients
TU-specific set-up information including IMAP and POP.

 

Composing and Sending Messages
• Sending
Replying
Forwarding
Saving Drafts

 

Receiving Messages
•  Conversations
•  Spam

 

Organizing Messages
•  Filters
•  Labels
•  Storage
•  Archiving
•  Deleting

 

Navigating Messages
•  Navigating
•  Searching

 

Chat
•  General Chat Information
•  Voice and Video Chat

  Tasks/To do lists
•  Using Tasks in Gmail
 

Account Settings
•  Accounts
•  Forwarding mail to another account
•  Labs

  Access Choices
•  Other Ways to Access Gmail (including POP and IMAP) (For student employees with Exchange Accounts, click here.)
•  POP (For important TU-specific instructions, click here.)
•  IMAP (For important TU-specific instructions, click here.)
  Calendar Features
•  Calendar Basics

Leaving TU? Create a Gmail account & take your email along!
Find out how to move your email and contacts into a free public Google Gmail account.

 

 

 

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