How to use Gmail's chat feature As with most online email services, Gmail provides you with instant messaging capabilities. Gmail Chat works inside your browser, while GoogleTalk is a program that you can install on your computer. Both of these allow you to communicate with your Gmail friends, and both have their advantages. In this tutorial, we'll be showing you how to use Gmail Chat. Scroll down. Here is the chat area of Gmail. It's visible on the left column of every page. As these two notes tell you, text chats are saved and searchable just like with email conversations, and you can even have a video chat with a friend. Click each X to close the notes. In the Options menu, you can sign in and out of chat and choose who shows up in your chat list, among other things. Your name is first in the chat list. From here, you can change your status, set your availability, etc. Click this arrow for more options. Let's set our status to Busy. We'll change that back to Available. With this box, you can search through and find contacts to add or invite to chat. When you start typing, entries from your Contacts list should appear. At right, you're given a number of actions that you can perform on that contact. Click on a contact's name to switch the actions menu to that person. Click anywhere in the background to cancel and close the contacts list. Let's chat with Demo User. Click on his name. A chat window will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. Click here, type a chat message, then press Enter to send. Note that this person is currently offline. Messages you send to an offline contact will be delivered when he/she comes online. When he logged in, the currently offline message disappeared, and his icon changed from grey to green. When you receive a response, the title bar of the chat area will be highlighted in orange, as will the user's name in your chat list. Let's respond. You will be notified when the other person is typing a message. Click the X to close the chat window. It will reappear if he responds again. Scroll up. Go to the Settings area. Open the Chat tab. There are a number of chat-related settings here. Most of these, you'll probably want to leave as the defaults. One useful feature in Gmail is the ability to sign in to an AIM account. This allows you to use Gmail to chat with your buddies on AIM as well as your Gmail chat contacts. Click Sign into AIM. You will need an AIM account in order to log in. If you don't have one, you can get a screen name via this link. Enter your login info, then click Sign in. Or, click Cancel. If you make any changes on this page, be sure to click Save Changes when you've finished. This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to use the Chat feature in Gmail.
How to import contacts into Gmail This tutorial will show you how to import contacts from other mail clients into Gmail. Before you begin, you'll need a contact list that you exported from your old mail client in CSV or vCard format. To import the file, go to Contacts. Click Import. Use the Browse... button to find your file. When you've found the correct file, double-click to select it. If you would like for these imported contacts to be added to a group, click this checkbox... ...then choose the group from the list. To finish, click Import. That's it! The four contacts have been imported successfully. Click OK to return to your contacts. Here are the four new contacts. They've also been added to our Internet Friends group. This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to import contacts into Gmail.
How to export contacts from Gmail In this tutorial, you will learn how to export contacts from Gmail. Exporting contacts from Gmail is easy. You can export in several different formats, and can even choose to export only certain groups of contacts. Go to Contacts. Then click Export. First, tell Gmail who you want to export. My Contacts contains only those contacts you have added, while All Contacts contains everyone you have ever been in touch with using your Gmail account. We'll choose a specific group. Then, select a format for the export file to be in. Finally, click Export. After a moment, a download box should appear. Click OK to save the file to your disk. That's it! You've successfully exported your contacts from Gmail. Now you just need to import the file into your favorite mail client. This completes the tutorial. You now know how to export contacts from Gmail.
How to edit your personal information in GmailIn this tutorial, you will find out how to edit your personal information in Gmail.Start by going to the Settings page.Then, open the Accounts and Import tab.The first thing you can do here is change your Send mail as setting.Click edit info to do so.This window will pop up. The default option here is to use your name as specified in your Google account settings.If you would prefer, use this box to specify something else for your name.If you want to send mail with a different reply-to address, click this link......and enter the address in the text field that appears.When finished here, click Save Changes.Your name will update automatically both here and in the Chat display.You can also configure Gmail to send mail from another address, rather than just sending a different reply-to address. Use this button to do that.Scroll down.Most of your personal information is stored under your Google Account settings. Click here to go there.At right, you can change your account password and password recovery options.As far as personal information goes, you have two choices. You can either create a detailed public profile, or just edit your personal information.We won't create a public profile right now. Click edit your personal info.To start, we'll change the First name listed here.Then, let's specify a Zip code.Scroll down.If you want, you can specify an alternate email address to use for your account.When finished, click Save.Click the Back link to return to your Settings page.That's it! You now know how to edit your personal information in Gmail.
How to configure your settings in GmailIn this tutorial, you will learn a little bit about Gmail's Settings area. If you've watched any of the previous demos, you've probably seen this area already.It can be found via the Settings link at the top of every page.First up is the General tab. This tab contains various settings that control the way Gmail operates.You can change your Gmail display language using this drop-down menu.For more language settings, click the Show all language options link.Here, you can enable Transliteration and support for right-to-left editing.Next on this tab is the Maximum page size option. The default setting is to show 50 conversations per page.Let's change that to 100.Keyboard shortcuts can help you save time, but they may not work with certain kinds of keyboards.If you prefer to always connect to Gmail securely, set the Browser connection option to Always use https.If you want to enter a Signature to append to every message, first click this radio button.Then type your signature here.Setting a Vacation responder may be useful if you're not going to be able to sign in to Gmail for a while. Gmail will send an automated reply to all incoming messages using the Subject and Message you specify here.When finished here, click Save Changes.Your Gmail session may need to be restarted, depending on the settings you changed.Return to the Settings page.This time, go to Accounts and Import.We've covered much of this page in previous tutorials. Import mail and contacts was covered several tutorials ago, while Send mail as was described in the tutorial directly before the one you're watching now.Check mail using POP3 allows you to configure Gmail to check your other mail accounts for mail on a regular basis. New mail will appear automatically in Gmail.Here, you can also Add additional storage to Gmail. This does cost money, however.We showed how to change your Google Account settings in the previous tutorial, as well.The Labels and Filters tabs were covered in previous tutorials, while Forwarding and POP/IMAP, Chat, and Themes will be covered later.Let's go to the Web Clips tab. The Web Clips feature shows Google Sponsored Links, Gmail tips, and custom content at the top of most pages.It's enabled by default. Click this checkbox to disable Web Clips.Now, on to Labs.Gmail Labs contains experimental features that aren't quite ready for everyone to use. Features listed here may change, break, or disappear at any time. You can try anything you want here, but remember that it's at your own risk.Take note of this link. If you try a Labs feature and have trouble accessing your Inbox, this will disable all Labs features.This is the end of the tutorial. You now have a good idea what many of the Gmail Settings do, and how to customize them.
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