This tutorial assumes that you are already logged in to Gmail. Now let's learn a little bit about the unique way Gmail displays your messages.
1) Rather than showing a single entry for each individual email, Gmail groups an email together with all replies - sort of like a thread on a forum. This is referred to as a conversation. As indicated by the (4)Â aside the first conversation, it contains four messages. The participants in the conversation are listed to the left of that.
2) To view a conversation, you can click anywhere on its row in the list, except on the controls at left. Notice that this conversation only contains one message. Click the < Newer link to go to the conversation directly before this one in the Inbox.
3) The Older > link works in a similar fashion.
4) There are a number of actions that you can perform on this conversation using the buttons directly below; we'll look at how to use some of these in the tutorials that follow. You can click the New window link if you want to open the conversation in a new window... and click Print all to print all messages in the conversation.
5) Gmail will collapse all the messages in a conversation that you've read before, except for the newest one. Click on a message's title to expand it.
6) Or, click Expand all to expand every message in the conversation.
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7) Collapse all reverses that action.
8) Clicking show details will display some more information about this particular message.
9) In addition to Reply and Forward, you can also perform a number of actions on a specific email in a conversation. Click the down arrow button to show these options.
10) To begin making a reply, you can also click in the textarea...
11) ...and a standard Gmail composition form will appear.
12) To return to the Inbox, click the << Back to Inbox link.
13) That's it! You now know how to view and reply to email conversations in Gmail.
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For more information about managing your email messages and conversations, be sure to check out the other tutorials.
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