Using Search in Gmail

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IOkay so now I'm going to talk about this SEARCH in Gmail. And of course since Gmail is from Google of course it has a really great search. And you can almost think of the search as just a way that you're going to find emails. Like say you don't really like using the labels to organize your emails. You could just always just search for anything and you're usually going to be able to find it because it works so well. Like say I archived an email about going to dinner on Friday but I don't really remember anything else about it besides that. So I'll just search anything I remember like, dinner, and there it is. It comes up like that. And if I had searched any other word, like if I had remembered it was just on Friday it would have came up. So that's basically the basic search. And you can also search the web right from your Gmail. So if I did that it's going to bring up Google Search results for dinner. But another thing that makes the search really powerful is the search options right here. So when I click on that, it brings up a whole lot more options. If I remember who it's from or who it's to or the subject I can search just all the subjects of all my letters or all the from boxes of all my letters. You can also, by default you're searching all mail, but you can change that and actually search just in your in box or just in your start, sent mail, drafts, chats. And then you can also search in Spam and Trash if you needed to for any reason. And then read mail, unread mail. And then you can search your labels as well. And then you have some other options. Has the words. Doesn't have the words. Does have an attachment. And then within 1 day, 3 days, within a time period of a date is another thing you can do. So that's how you use the search. And like I said it's really great in Gmail that the search works so well so you can just kind of archive your messages as you go and maybe not necessarily have to worry about organizing them because you can just go search for them later fairly easily. And it's still good to use the label section and actually organize your messages but you always can remember that you'll be able to search really easily for pretty much anything. And that's another reason that you don't want to just delete messages. And you want to use the archive function because then they'll go into your all mail right here and then these are the messages you're searching. So that's just another great powerful feature in Gmail. That's the search mail function.

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