Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #11

When you compose a new email, a pop-up window appears in the corner of your screen.  Depending on the screen size of your device and your workflow, this pop-up may be too small for your liking.  You can expand the compose email window by clicking on the arrows in the corner.

This will both enlarge and center your compose screen.  If you prefer this size and view, you can make it your default size by completing the following steps.

1. Within mail.google.com, click +Compose (or C if you've enabled keyboard shortcuts)
2. Click the meatballs at the bottom of the screen 
3. Choose Default to full-screen 
4. Note: You'll need to close the compose window and start a new one to see this in action.

Now every new email you start will be full-screen instead of small and in the corner.

BONUS TIP: 

If you have keyboard shortcuts enabled, type D and this will start a new email in a new tab!!  Give it a try.  If this doesn't work, that means you don't have keyboard shortcuts enabled.  Check out the previous tip to learn more about keyboard shortcuts.

Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #10

Looking for an email? Use the Power of Google Search right in your Inbox 

You can easily search your inbox by typing your search terms in the Search Box at the top of your inbox.

But the even greater search capabilities are revealed by clicking on the down arrow.

Here you can refine your results by sender, subject, words contained within the email and much, much more.

Search is not just for your email but also exists within Google Calendar. You'll find lots of search capabilities including location, participants, and much more!

Interested in learning more about search operators in Gmail? Visit the Gmail Search Operators Support Document for even more search terms.

Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #9

Happy Friday Everyone!  

Have you noticed that Gmail sometimes offers to complete your words or sentences when writing an email?  That's the smart compose feature that provides you writing suggestions after typing only a few characters or short phrase.  If you like what you see, simply press the tab key and Gmail will complete the rest!  

If you do not like the smart compose feature, it can be turned off under settings.  Visit the Gear > Settings and Under the General Tab, locate Smart Compose > turn off writing suggestions and finally save changes.  If you make this change, you'll no longer see the writing suggestions.

You can find this tip archived under our Migration Tips on the WUSD Tech Blog. 

If you are experiencing any technical issues with Gmail, please complete a helpdesk ticket so it can be quickly routed to the correct member of our team and addressed.

Google-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #8

Save Time with Keyboard Shortcuts!

It's the start of a new year and who wants to save time?  Keyboard Shortcuts to the Rescue!

Instead of using your mouse or touchpad and scrolling over to click +Compose button to start a new email, you can just type the letter c!

For this to work, you'll need to make sure you have keyboard shortcuts turned on in Gmail. Here's how:

1. Using Chrome, visit mail.google.com
2. Click the Gear icon > Settings
3. Under the General Tab, scroll down and find Keyboard shortcuts, Turn on 
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and Save Changes

Now try it out!  Type c and you're ready to start composing a new email.

BONUS TIPS!

This keyboard shortcut also works within Google Calendar! Visit calendar.google.com, type the letter c and you'll be able to create a new event.

Want to learn even more keyboard shortcuts?  Hit Shift + ? and you'll see a pop-up window with ALL the Shortcuts. So many possibilities!

Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #7

Want the Gmail Icon to Appear on your PC Taskbar, similar to how Outlook used to appear? 

There are several ways to do this.  Here's one of the easiest.

1. Using the Chrome Browser, open mail.google.com 
2. With Gmail open, visit the meatballs (3 vertical dots) in the top right corner
3. Choose More tools > Create Shortcut
   
4. Now locate the newly created Gmail Icon on your Desktop
5. Right Click on Gmail Desktop Shortcut and Select Pin to Taskbar.

You can find a video tutorial of this tip on the WUSD Tech YouTube Channel Gmail Migration Playlist and archived under our Migration Tips on the WUSD Tech Blog. 

If you are experiencing any technical issues with Gmail, please complete a helpdesk ticket so it can be quickly routed to the correct member of our team and addressed.