How to use your Yahoo email account

How to use your Yahoo email account (beta)
To open your Yahoo! Account:
1. Open the Internet by double-clicking on the Internet Explorer icon
Click once in the address bar
, type www.yahoo.com and press
return.
2. On the Yahoo! Homepage, click the My Mail
3. Click in the Yahoo! ID box
button
and type your Yahoo! ID
(the part of your e-mail address before the @).
4. Click in the Password box
5. Click the Sign In
button.
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and type your password.
To read your e-mails:
1. Click on the Check Mail button
2. Any e-mails you have will be listed
showing who sent it, what the
subject is and when it was sent. Double click on an e-mail to open it.
The full e-mail will now appear. Once you’ve read it, you can do things
with it by using the buttons along the top:
3. Click
to reply to the sender of the e-mail. This will open a new e-
mail with their address already inserted. All you do is type your reply
and click Send.
4. Click
to forward the e-mail to someone else.
5. Click
to move through your e-mails. The down arrow takes you to
the previous one in your Inbox; the up arrow to the next one.
6. Click
to print the e-mail. (It lets you print just the e-mail – not all the
other stuff on the screen.)
7. Click
to throw it in the bin.
8. Click
to report this e-mail as spam. This marks it as junk mail and
any future e-mails from this sender will be automatically sent to the
Spam folder, not your Inbox.
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To write an e-mail:
1. Click the Compose button
or press the letter n on the keyboard
Your e-mail can be 10 words or 10,000 words – the box will expand as you
type.
2. When you are ready to send your e-mail, click
at the top left of the e-mail.
3. When you have finished with your e-mail, always close your Yahoo!
Account safely by click on Sign Out
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