Email: all our guides
“I’m now an avid emailer. Thankfully, it’s much easier than I thought it would be and I love the fact that I can send and receive messages at the touch of a button. It makes staying in touch incredibly easy.â€
The very first email or “electronic mail” was sent in 1971, by a computer programmer in Massachusetts. It has revolutionised the way that we communicate with each other. Never has it been so easy or instant to send a message across the world. Our straightforward guides will take you from getting your own email account right through to emailing photos and birthday cards to friends and family – wherever they might be.
Getting started
What is an email? - Back to basics: what an email is anyway…
Email safety tips -Â Simple steps to help you keep your personal information safe when using email.
How to get an email account -Â Here are the options and an overview of the process involved.
How to create a gmail account -Â The step-by-step guide to getting this free Google email account.
Sending and receiving email
How to open an email -Â A guide to opening and reading the contents of an email message.
How to delete an email -Â A quick guide to deleting unwanted messages from your email inbox.
How to send an email -Â A simple step-by-step guide to help you create and send an email.
How to send an email to multiple people -Â A step-by-step guide to sending one email to several different email addresses at once.
How to open an attachment -Â Find out how to open a file that has been attached to an email and sent to you.
How to email a document -Â A simple guide to sending an email with a file from your computer attached to it.
How to email a picture -Â Simple instructions for emailing a photo or picture.
How to send an ecard -Â A guide to sending greetings cards and messages through email.
Create an ecard – Practise making ecards with this tool from our sister website Spring Online.
Windows Live Mail
What is Windows Live Mail? -Â An introduction to Microsoft’s free email program.
How to download Windows Live Mail -Â Easy instructions for downloading the latest free email program from Microsoft.
How to use Windows Live Mail -Â A guide to setting up and using Microsoft’s free email program.
The following guide is a PDF file that you can view or print using Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you need assistance to do this, here’s some help.
More about email – A follow-up to the Email Learning Guide, explaining more things that you can do.
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