Provides information on how to set up an email account via Gmail.

1. Email

2. To receive the full benefit of this course, the staff
of the Montgomery County Public Library strongly
recommends attending in person. Individual
assistance with each exercise is provided in class as
well as a Question & Answer session with our
instructors.

3. Objectives:
• Review basic Internet information.
• Be familiar with how to set up an email
account via Gmail.
• Demonstrate how to send emails with
attachments.

4. Using the Internet
• The Internet is a worldwide connection of computers
with information stored on web pages. You need an
internet provider to access the internet and a web
browser to access web pages.
• The web browser we will be
using is Internet Explorer and
is represented by this icon.

5. Using the Internet cont.
• A web site is a collection of web pages.
• Each web site has its own address. If you know the address
of the web site you are looking for, just open the web browser
and type in the address.
• If you don’t know the address, you need to go to a web site
that searches the internet called a search engine.

6. Internet Practice
• Double click on the Internet Explorer
icon and you will see this screen.
• When you open Internet Explorer, it
automatically goes to your home page. Here
at the library, the home page is the library
website. The home page for your home
computer will be different.
• At the top of screen, you will see a box that
contains the web address of the site that is
open. This site’s address is
www.youseemore.com/mtsterling.
• This box is where you will enter the web
address if you know it or the web address of
the search engine you will use. Enter this
address: www.google.com.

7. Creating an Email account
• Just like web sites have unique web addresses,
individuals can set their own email address to receive
messages.
• Unlike a web address, you can not type an email
address into a web browser and get a result. If you
have an individual or company’s email address and
want to contact them, you have to have an email
address of your own first.
• The next few slides will illustrate how to set up an
email address with Gmail.

8. Creating an Gmail account
• Type www.gmail.com in the web browser address bar. This is the site
you will use to login to your Gmail account in the future.
• To create an account, you will need to fill out an online form. First
click on : Create an account

9. Creating a Gmail account cont.
To create an email account, the email provider needs specific information.
Fields that you may have trouble with are:
Desired Login Name : this will be the beginning of your email address, it must be unique
Password : must be 8 characters long and you will enter the same word in both password
fields.
Do not check any of the boxes under the password field.
The rest of the fields are used to verify that you are the creator of this address if you ever
forget your password.

10. Creating a Gmail account
This is the screen you will see after you create your account.
Click on Show me my account to go to your inbox.

11. Creating a Gmail account
Your inbox is where you will receive new email
messages, just click on a message to open it. To
send a message, you will click on Compose mail.

12. Sending an email
When you are composing a
message, you need to enter the
email address of the person or
company to whom you are
sending a message. Remember a
web address is the location of a
web page. An email address is
needed to send a message to a
specific person.
Fill out the email address here
You do not have to have a subject
but it is recommended that you fill
this out so that the email recipient
has an idea of what the email is
about.
The body of the message goes
into this space.

13. Sending an email
Later we will practice sending
emails with an attachment. An
attachment is a file that you want
to send from your computer to
the recipient’s computer. In
Gmail, to send an attachment,
you choose the link Attach a file.
This opens up the documents
folder in your computer. Just
scroll down until you find the file
that you want to attach and click
on it once, then click Open. This
attaches the file to your email.
When you finished, just press
Send.