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Question from Kenny: I love your site man. Too cool!
I hope you can help me with a Gmail question.
I have over 7000 messages in my Gmail Inbox and about as many in my “Sent Mail” folder.
I’d like to wipe out all those old messages and start fresh, but it would take forever to go through there and delete them a page at a time.
My question is do you know of a way to delete all of my Gmail messages at once? [Read more…]
Question from Paul: I recently switched my email from another service to Gmail and I have a question that I hope you can answer.
My Gmail inbox shows short previews of the email text beside each email’s subject line.
I’ve found that the previews make the screen look crowded and they are distracting to me.
Can you please tell me how to disable the previews so I’ll see nothing but the subject lines? [Read more…]
Question from Raymond: I hope you can help me solve a problem I’m having with email links, Rick. It’s absolutely driving me up the wall.
Whenever I click an email link on a web page in Firefox it automatically loads Outlook from my hard drive, and I don’t want it to.
I switched my email from Outlook to Gmail several months ago but I can’t figure out how to make email links open automatically in Gmail without having to copy the link and paste it into a new blank email.
Can you tell me what I need to do to fix that? [Read more…]
If you use Gmail you’ve probably noticed how Google provides suggestions for how to complete your sentences as you’re typing out your emails.
This feature is called “Smart Compose”, and Google’s stated reason for providing it is to help you write your emails faster by providing suggested text snippets based upon your past writings.
As with all things, some folks love the Smart Compose feature, while others detest it. [Read more…]
Have you ever clicked the “Send” button after composing an email and immediately realized that you had sent the message to the wrong person?
Or perhaps you have sent an angry response to an email, only to regret it just as soon as you clicked “Send”?
Things like this happen to most of us at times, and it’s never a good feeling when they do.
Luckily, Gmail has a nifty feature called “Undo Send” that gives you up to 30 seconds to change your mind after clicking the “Send” button. [Read more…]