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now that you have your Gmail account set
up it's time to compose your first email
in the left menu pane click the plus
button to compose a new email there are
three main parts to the email that
you'll always need to have recipients
which are the people that you're sending
the email to a subject which tells your
recipients what the email is about and
the body which is the message itself
let's start by adding some recipients
you can type one or more email addresses
here if the person is already in your
contacts you can just start typing their
name and it will appear below then you
can press the Enter key or the tab key
to add the person you can add a lot of
email addresses really quickly this way
another way to add recipients is to
click the word to
and then you can select the contacts
that you want
when you're finished click select for
the subject you can just type something
brief that describes what the email is
about and in the body field you can type
your message
now before we send this email there are
some additional things that we can do
sometimes you may want to add recipients
to the cc or BCC fields which stand for
Carbon Copy and blind carbon copy Carbon
Copy is used a lot in the business world
and it basically just lets the person
know that they're not the main recipient
while still keeping them in the loop
blind carbon copy is similar except it
hides the recipients email address from
everyone else for this email we don't
really need to use either of these you
can also attach a file if you want for
this email we might want to add a flyer
that people can print
you'll be able to see the upload
progress here and larger attachments may
take a while to upload and it's nice to
include a short note just to let your
recipients know what the attachment is
finally we can add various types of
formatting to the body of the email for
example it would be good to format this
web address as a link so that people can
click on it I'll select it and then
click the link button
if you want you can click change to
change the display text to something
different
you can also use these buttons to add
other formatting like colors fonts and
bulleted or numbered lists since this
email is pretty informal a little bit of
color can help add some personality to
it but in a more serious email like a
job application it's better to stick
with more traditional formatting the
final step is to click send
now there's one more thing that I'd like
to mention many people like to create a
signature that will appear at the end of
every email that they send to do this
click the gear icon and select settings
then scroll down until you see the
signature area
typically a signature will include your
name and some kind of contact info like
an email address or a phone number but
keep in mind that this will be seen by
everybody who gets an email from you so
you may not want to include anything too
personal like a home address when you're
done scroll to the bottom of the page
and click Save Changes
and now whenever you compose an email
your signature will appear at the end
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