Lesson 5. Sending Email

In this lesson, you learn how to create and send new email messages.

Composing a New Email Message

Sending a new email message from Gmail is as easy as clicking a button, telling Gmail who you want to send it to, entering the text of the message, and then clicking another button. Follow these steps:

1. From any Gmail page, click the Compose button in the navigation sidebar.

2. This displays the New Message pane, shown in Figure 5.1. You can compose your message in this pane or click the Full-screen icon to display a larger New Message panel in the middle of the browser window.

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FIGURE 5.1 Composing a new email message ...

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