Gmail tips and tricks!

Get the most out of your Gmail account!

Google Labs provide a “sandbox” environment for apps that in the experimental stage but not yet released as fully commissioned features of Google apps. The Labs can be accessed by hitting the settings option from the configuration wheel that located on the top right hand side of your Gmail account.

In the labs you can enable some interesting features that customize your look and feel while using Google mail apps.

One cool feature is the use of preview panes. This allows you to preview your email by just click in on it once.

Your Gmail account suddenly now looks like the familiar Microsoft outlook interface.  You can have it Vertical or horizontal.

Another cool feature you can enable is undo send! You do know how frustrating it gets when you hit send and then see that TYPO! Aaaagrrr well now with undo send you can catch that and make corrections. To hit undo, you must click on the cancel link at the top of your mailbox where you see the word Sending then a message undo send appears. If you click on it your message will not be delivered to the recipient until you re-send it.

One more trick: using the operator “OR” when doing a refined search.  See example below

from:sammygatere@westnairobischool.org OR from:techsupport@nwea.org

This gives you a refined search using the parameters specified.

Enjoy customizing your Gmail experience.

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