INFORMATIVE TEXT

INSTRUCTIVE TEXT

To send an email, you must first follow these steps:

Step 1:

First, login to your email account with your username and password.

Important:

If you have not created an email account or do not remember how to access it, check out our lesson "Creating an email account"

Step 2:

For starters, it is best that you walk or stand in the Inbox of your email address, that is, where the list of messages you have received is.

To access there in Outlook, click on the "Go to Inbox"; Yahoo!, on the "Go to inbox", located on the main page. If your account is on Gmail, when you enter your email first thing you see is the Inbox.

Step 3:

Next, locate and click the Compose, New or Write Message button. That depends on your email our provider.

Buttons

Step 4:

After that, just get to the page where you'll find everything you need to write your mail or email, also called "Writing Pad".

Here are several blanks that you must complete in order to send the message.

Now that you've entered the Writing Pad, you must learn to use each of the fields that appear there to send your first message correctly.

Image upper panel field writing an email.

Once you're in the Writing Pad, you follow these steps to send your message:

Step 5:

Then, in the space to enter an email address of the person to whom you will send the message.

Step 6:

In the CC box (copied) writes addresses of people you will copy the message. Also in this field, remember to separate them with commas (,) if more than one.

Remember:

After that an email begins with the user name followed by the @ sign and the name of the messaging provider that was opened or created the account.

Example: jose.alcides.alvarado @ gmail.com.

Step 7:

To send this email to another person or persons without other recipients know, use the Bcc (blind carbon copy).

There, type the addresses of the people who also get the message without others knowing.

Step 8:

After that, Subject space, write a title that represents the purpose of your message.

Step 9:

Now, write your message in the empty space that occupies most of the screen. Customize the text you typed using the formatting tools located in the upper part of this space.

You can choose the font, size, color, add hyperlinks, add emoticons (smilies expressing emotions) or images and align text, among other possibilities. There is also a tool for spell checking the text.

Step 10:

It is important that at the end of each message you write, include your signature, that is, you write your name and contact information for you.

Step 11:

...