Chapter 5
The Email Must Get Through
IN THIS CHAPTER
Reading and managing email messages
Sending email messages
Setting up email accounts
Working with attachments
On any computing device, emails come and go with a variety of emotions. Messages may be amusing or sad, frivolous or serious. Electronic missives on the iPad are almost always touching. Because, you know, you’re touching the display to compose and read messages.
Okay, so we’re having a little fun, but the truth is that Apple’s Mail on the iPad is a modern app designed to send and receive plain-text emails, as well as rich HTML email messages formatted with font and type styles and embedded graphics.
Furthermore, your iPad can read several types of file attachments, including (but not limited to) PDFs, JPG images, Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint slides, and Excel spreadsheets, as well as stuff produced through Apple’s own productivity software, notably Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. Better still, all this sending and receiving of text, graphics, and documents happens in the background, so you can surf the web or play ...
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