Google Gmail Tips

Many Ghacks visitors already have a Google Gmail account or are asking me for an invitation. I thought it would be nice to share a great site with you that features heaps of Gmail tips that help you get the most out of the email service.
The site Gmail tips the complete collection, gives a rough introduction to the Google mail service and lists more than 50 tips afterwards. For example tip 27 explains to you how you would add a Hotmail email account to Gmail, tip 11 how to connect securely to Gmail, and tip 45 how to back up your Gmail account.
Every tip is worth a quick glance at least, as you learn a lot about the Gmail service that you may not have known before. Great tips about advanced search features, contacts and attachments.
Update: It needs to be noted that at least some of the tips on the page will not work anymore due to changes that Google implemented in recent years. While you will still get several good and working tips out of the listing, you should be aware of that as well.
Probably the best starting points for a recent collection of Gmail tips and tricks, is the official Gmail website.
Here you find four different tips groups, which increase in difficulty level. The first group of tips introduces standard features, like the stars symbol to indicate special notes, or how users can customize the Gmail layout to suite their needs better.
The second group of tips talks about tasks and how they can be used, how to use filters to control incoming emails, and how important emails can be highlighted using filters and colored labels.
The third group of tips looks at some of the most important keyboard shortcuts, how to use Gmail without an Internet connection, and how users can make calls using Gmail.
The fourth and final group of tips looks at customization options, how to sign out of Gmail remotely, or getting Gmail for a business.
Here are my favorite Gmail tips:
Change the display density on Gmail to compact to fit more on the screen. To do so click on the gear icon and select compact from the menu.
Organize emails with labels. To do so select one or multiple emails and click on the label icon at the top toolbar on Gmail. From here select a new label or an existing one.
Gmail Labs offer several interesting add-on features that you can extend the service's functionality with. Some interesting ones include authentication icons for verified senders, background send or custom keyboard shortcuts to change some of the default shortcuts on the site.
You can add third party accounts, think Outlook.com or Yahoo Mail, to Gmail so that you receive that mail as well on Gmail.
The Inbox menu enables you to switch to a different inbox type, for instance to a priority inbox which sorts emails automatically based on your priorities.
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I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!