Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Owners Manual

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Section 5: Messaging
This section describes how to send and receive messages 
and other features associated with messaging.
Types of Messages
Your device supports these types of messages:
Gmail: Send and receive Gmail from your Google account.
Email: Send and receive email from your email accounts, 
including Corporate Exchange mail.
Google Talk: Chat with other Google Talk users.
Google Messenger: Use Google Messenger to bring groups of 
friends together into a simple group...

671.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps ➔  Gmail.
The Add a Google Account screen displays.
2.Touch 
Existing to sign in to an existing account.
At the Sign in screen, use the on-screen keyboard to enter 
your Google 
Email name and Password, then touch Sign in.
– or –
Touch 
New to create a new account.
At the Your name screen, enter your first and last name, and 
touch 
Next.
At the Create email address follow the prompts to create a 
new account.
The Backup and restore screen displays.
3.Read the backup...

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Managing Your Gmail Conversations
In addition to managing your Gmail account, there are 
options for changing the status of one or more Gmail 
conversations in an account.
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps ➔  Gmail.
2.Touch the gray box to the left of one or more 
conversations and then choose one of the following 
options:
  : Archive the conversations. Archived 
conversations are assigned to the All Mail folder.
  : Delete the conversations. Deleted conversations 
are moved to the...

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Composing and Sending Gmail
1.From a Home screen, touch   Apps ➔  Gmail.
2.To u c h
  Compose.
3.Touch the 
To field to enter recipients. As you enter 
names or email addresses, matching contacts display. 
Touch a contact to add it to the field.
4.Touch the 
Subject field to enter a subject.
5.Touch 
Compose email to enter the text of your email.
6.While composing a message, the following options are 
displayed:
 CC/BCC: Create Cc (copy) and Bcc (blind copy) fields in the 
message. After creating the...

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 Ask to show pictures: Restores the default setting (do not 
show pictures automatically) for all the people who send you 
email, including those whose Show pictures setting you may 
have changed when reading messages from them.
(Gmail account settings)
Each account has independent settings:
 Priority Inbox: This setting is only available if you have 
configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox. If available, 
you can set Priority Inbox as the conversation list to open when 
you...

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Email
Use Email to view and manage all your email accounts in one 
application.
Configuring Email Accounts
1.From a Home screen, touch  Apps ➔  Email.
2.At the 
Set up email screen, enter an Email address and 
Password, then touch Next.
3.Your account’s incoming server settings are different 
depending on the kind of email service for the account. 
If you are asked 
What type of account?, touch the type 
of account: 
POP3 account, IMAP account, or Microsoft 
Exchange ActiveSync
.
The Server settings...

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: When enabled, events from your account are 
synchronized with your device’s Calendar.
 Sync Task: When enabled, tasks from your account are 
synchronized with your device’s Calendar.
 Automatically download attachments when connected to 
Wi-Fi
: Enable or disable auto-download of files attached to 
recent messages when connected through Wi-Fi.
5.Touch Next to go to the next screen or touch Previous to 
go to the Apps screen.
Note: For Exchange ActiveSync accounts, the Activate device...

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Managing Your Email Conversations
In addition to managing your Email account, there are 
options for changing the status of one or more Email 
conversations in an account.
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps ➔  Email.
2.Touch the box to the left of one or more conversations 
and then choose one of the following options:
  : Mark the conversations with a gold star and list 
them in the Starred folder. Touch   to make the changes.
– or –Flag : Touch Clear to clear all flags and check marks, touch...

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To field.
If you are sending the email message to several recipients, 
separate the email addresses with a comma. You can add as 
many message recipients as you want.
Touch  to add a contact to the field.
Touch +Cc/Bcc to add additional carbon copy recipients.
–Use the Cc field to carbon copy additional recipients.
–Use the Bcc field to blind copy additional recipients.
Touch +Me to add yourself as a recipient.
4.Touch the Subject field to...

757.Touch  
Save to save the email to the Drafts folder, 
 
Send to send the email, or   Delete to delete the 
email.
Account Settings
Account settings lets you configure handling of email on your 
device.
Note: Available settings may depend on the email account and 
include setting how much email to synchronize, creating 
signatures for email you send, and other handling 
options.
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps ➔ Email.2.To u c h
  Menu ➔ Settings, then touch General 
Preferences
. The following...