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How to change your Gmail inbox layout?

Steps:

  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top right, click Settings.
  3. Under “Inbox type,” select:
    • Default (categories or tabs) – If you choose “Default,” your inbox will be split up into different tabs, like “Primary,” “Social,” “Promotions,” and “Updates.” When you have the “Default” inbox, your messages are automatically sorted into tabs, but you can move messages among categories if you want.
    • Important first – If you choose “Important first,” your inbox will be separated into two sections: “Important” at the top, and “Everything else” at the bottom.
    • Unread first – If you choose “Unread first,” your inbox will be separated into two sections: “Unread” at the top and “Everything else” at the bottom.
    • Starred first – If you choose “Starred first,” your inbox will be separated into two sections: “Starred” at the top, and “Everything else” at the bottom.
    • Priority Inbox – If you choose “Priority Inbox” your inbox will be separated into multiple sections. You can choose which sections you want to show, including “Important and unread,” “Starred,” “Everything else,” or a label that you have made.
    • Multiple Inboxes – If you choose “Multiple inboxes,” Gmail will add additional sections to your inbox. You can use search operators or custom labels to create each section.

You can find all your inboxes and labels in the left-hand menu. When the left-hand menu is hidden, you’ll have more space for your emails and can point to the menu for more options.

To hide the left-hand menu:

  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top left, click Menu.
    • Tip: To show the menu again, click Menu.

Credit/Resource: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/18522?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

How to create a Gmail signature?

  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top right, click Settings > See all settings.
  3. In the “Signature” section, add your signature text in the box. If you want, you can format your message by adding an image or changing the text style.
    • Tip: Your image also counts toward the character limit. If you get an error, try to resize the image.
  4. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

You can use different signatures for your emails. For example, you can set a signature default for new emails you compose or reply to. You can also choose a different signature with each email you send.

  • Tip: If you want to change your signature while you write an email, at the bottom of the window, click Insert signature.
  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top right, click Settings > See all settings.
  3. Under “General,” scroll to “Signature” and click the signature you want to edit.
  4. Use the text box to make your changes.
  5. To change the signature name, click Edit.
  6. At the bottom, click Save Changes.
    • Tip: You can also choose a signature default for new emails and emails that you reply to.
  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top right, click Settings > See all settings.
  3. Under “General,” scroll to “Signature.”
  4. Click the signature you want to remove.
  5. Click Delete > Delete.
  6. At the bottom, click Save Changes.

If you use the “Send mail as” feature to send from different addresses in your account, you can add a different signature for each address.

To select an address, use the drop-down menu above the signature text box on the Settings page.

If you don’t see the drop-down menu:

  1. Open the Accounts and Import settings page.
  2. Check that your addresses are listed in the “Send mail as” section.

Credit/Resource: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8395?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL CommunicationsChair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

How to create a Gmail signature?

  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top right, click Settings > See all settings.
  3. In the “Signature” section, add your signature text in the box. If you want, you can format your message by adding an image or changing the text style.
    • Tip: Your image also counts toward the character limit. If you get an error, try to resize the image.
  4. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

You can use different signatures for your emails. For example, you can set a signature default for new emails you compose or reply to. You can also choose a different signature with each email you send.

  • Tip: If you want to change your signature while you write an email, at the bottom of the window, click Insert signature.
  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top right, click Settings > See all settings.
  3. Under “General,” scroll to “Signature” and click the signature you want to edit.
  4. Use the text box to make your changes.
  5. To change the signature name, click Edit.
  6. At the bottom, click Save Changes.
    • Tip: You can also choose a signature default for new emails and emails that you reply to.
  1. Open Gmail.
  2. At the top right, click Settings > See all settings.
  3. Under “General,” scroll to “Signature.”
  4. Click the signature you want to remove.
  5. Click Delete > Delete.
  6. At the bottom, click Save Changes.

If you use the “Send mail as” feature to send from different addresses in your account, you can add a different signature for each address.

To select an address, use the drop-down menu above the signature text box on the Settings page.

If you don’t see the drop-down menu:

  1. Open the Accounts and Import settings page.
  2. Check that your addresses are listed in the “Send mail as” section.

Credit/Resource: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8395?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL CommunicationsChair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

What is a Browser Cookie?

Cookies are small pieces of information websites store on your computer. Cookies only contain bits of text, not anything else. The text can be a user ID, session ID, or any other text. For example, web pages can be configurable — a web page could have a Hide link that hides a certain element on the page. The page can save this setting on your computer with a cookie. When you load the page in the future, the page can examine the cookie and automatically hide the element.

Your web browser stores and manages cookies. You can find a list of websites storing cookies and view the cookies themselves — although it’s usually not interesting to look at the content of the cookies — in your browser’s settings. If you use multiple web browsers on your computer, each browser has its own set of cookies.

Websites are only allowed to look at their own cookies — for example, when you visit How-To Geek, we can’t examine cookies from other websites. This prevents malicious websites from snooping and stealing your login sessions.

As we’ve seen, cookies have a number of very important uses. The web wouldn’t be what it is without them today.

  • Cookies store your login state. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to log into websites. Websites use cookies to remember and identify you.
  • Cookies store preferences on websites. You couldn’t change settings and have them persist between page loads without cookies.
  • Cookies allow websites to provide personalized content. For example, if you’re shopping on Amazon, Amazon can remember the products you’ve browsed and recommend similar products — even if you’re not logged in.

However, cookies can also be used for more questionable purposes. Advertising and tracking networks use tracking cookies to track you across the web. When you visit website that uses scripts from an advertising network, that network can set a cookie in your browser. When you visit another website that uses tracking scripts from the same network, the advertising network can check the value of your cookie — it knows the same person visited both websites. In this way, the advertising networks track you across the web.

This information is used to target ads to you — for example, if you search for car insurance and later visit a news website, you may see advertisements for car insurance on the news website. The advertisements may not be related to the website you’re currently on, but they will be related to the websites you were visiting before. Depending on the advertising network, you may be able to opt out of this — as with the Google Ads Preferences page, which also shows the advertising categories you’ve been assigned by Google based on the websites you’ve been tracked across.

You can manage your browser’s cookies from its settings window. Each browser’s Clear Private Data tool will also delete cookies. For information on viewing and clearing your browser’s cookies, see our article on deleting cookies in the five most popular browsers on Windows.

One problem with clearing cookies is that it will log you out of sites you use. If you want to stay logged into the websites you use but block other websites from using cookies, check out our guide to blocking all cookies except for the sites you use. Bear in mind that some websites won’t work properly if you disable cookies for them.

Credit/Resource: https://www.howtogeek.com/119458/htg-explains-whats-a-browser-cookie/

Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL CommunicationsChair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

How to check if an email is legit?

Here are some ways to check if an email is legitimate:

Domain name – The domain name, which is the part after the @ symbol, should match the sender’s name. You can search for the company’s name in a search engine to verify the domain name. Also, legitimate organizations don’t misspell their domain name.

Spelling and grammar – Emails that are fraudulent or spam may have spelling and grammar errors, even if the logo looks legitimate.

Links – Hover your cursor over a link for a few seconds to see where it goes. If it looks like it’s going to one place but actually goes somewhere else, that’s a red flag. Other signs of suspicious links include unusual or misleading URLs, or display text that asks for personal information.

HTTPS – If the URL in the email starts with “https,” the information sent to the site is encrypted, which indicates that the email is probably legitimate.

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Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL Communications Chair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

Are you getting too many group emails? Do you wish you knew how to respond individually? 

Well, it is simple!

Using GMAIL:

When you are opening your email and you would like to respond, not to everyone but only to the sender. Hit the 3-dots that is next to the reply-icon and select reply, not reply to all. 

  • Reply: Sends your response to the original sender
  • Reply to all: Sends your response to the original sender and everyone else who was CC’d but not BCC’d into the email because they are blind-copied so you will not see them
  • Reply to a forwarded email: Creates a new conversation that’s linked to the original channel and belongs to the same thread

Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL Communications Chair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

Common Control Computer Shortcuts?

  • Copy: Ctrl+ C
  • Cut: Ctrl+ X
  • Paste: Ctrl+ V
  • Maximize Window: F11 or Windows logo key  + Up arrow 
  • Open Task View: Windows logo key + Tab
  • Display and hide the desktop: Windows logo key + D
  • Switch between open apps: Alt + Tab
  • Open the Quick Link menu: Windows logo key + X
  • Lock your PC: Windows logo key + L
  • Depending on your hardware, you can use Windows logo key + PrtScn to take a screenshot, or use Fn + Windows logo key + Spacebar. 
  • Command-C: Copy the selected item to the Clipboard. This also works for files in the Finder.
  • Command-X: Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard.
  • Command-V: Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app. This also works for files in the Finder.
  • Press and hold the Option Key: To maximize a window
  • Command-H: Hide the windows of the front app. To view the front app but hide all other apps, press Option-Command-H.
  • Command-Tab: Switch to the next most recently used app among your open apps.
  • Shift-Command-N: Create a new folder in the Finder.
  • Command-Z: Undo the previous command. You can then press Shift-Command-Z to Redo, reversing the undo command. In some apps, you can undo and redo multiple commands.
  • Command-A: Select All items.
  • Command-F: Find items in a document or open a Find window.
  • Command-O: Open the selected item, or open a dialog to select a file to open.
  • Command-P: Print the current document.
  • Command-S: Save the current document.
  • Command-T: Open a new tab.
  • Command-W: Close the front window. To close all windows of the app, press Option-Command-W.
  • Command-G: Find Again: Find the next occurrence of the item previously found. To find the previous occurrence, press Shift-Command-G.
  • Command-M: Minimize the front window to the Dock. To minimize all windows of the front app, press Option-Command-M.
  • Option-Command-Esc: Force quit an app.
  • Command–Space bar: Show or hide the Spotlight search field. To perform a Spotlight search from a Finder window, press Command–Option–Space bar. (If you use multiple input sources to type in different languages, these shortcuts change input sources instead of showing Spotlight. Learn how to change a conflicting keyboard shortcut.)
  • Control–Command–Space bar: Show the Character Viewer, from which you can choose emoji and other symbols.
  • Control-Command-F: Use the app in full screen, if supported by the app.
  • Space bar: Use Quick Look to preview the selected item.
  • Command–Grave accent (`): Switch between the windows of the app you’re using. (The character on the second key varies by keyboard. It’s generally the key above the Tab key and to the left of the number 1.)
  • Command-Comma (,): Open preferences for the front app.
  • Shift-Command-5: In macOS Mojave or later, take a screenshot or make a screen recording. Or use Shift-Command-3 or Shift-Command-4 for screenshots. Learn more about screenshots.

Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL Communications Chair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

…you can personalize your email signature?

  1. In the Gmail app, click on the 3-dashes on the top left corner
  2. Scroll down to select Settings
  3. Scroll down to Signature Settings
  4. Enable your Mobile Signature and write in the text field your desired signature. Please note you CANNOT add any logo (or images) on a mobile signature. Text only. Then click on Done
  5. Go to Compose and you’ll see your signature added.
  1. Once logged into Gmail, go to the Setting icon and click on See all Settings
  2. Scroll down to Signature and Create New and Name the signature. You can create more than one type of signature.
  3. Fill the text field with your name and contact information and/or logo. You may need to adjust the size of the logo.
  4. Scroll to the bottom and click on Save Changes
  5. Go to Compose and you’ll see your signature added.

Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL Communications Chair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

…you can send a scheduled email?

  1. Click on the three (3) dots on right side of an open composed email
  2. Schedule send
  3. Four (4) choices pop up (Please keep in mind Shabbat, Jewish Holidays, and the different time zones and select appropriately)
  1. In Gmail, in an open composed email, go to the SEND button and click on the arrow down symbol (or arrow with click symbol, it varies on the browser)
  2. Schedule Send option will display, click on it
  3. Three (3) choices pop up (Please keep in mind Shabbat, Jewish Holidays, and the different time zones and select appropriately)

Questions?

Esta Z. Lichtenstein
WL Communications Chair
elichtenstein@wlcj.org

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