Creating a Yahoo Email
Account
Open
your internet browser
In
the address bar, type www.yahoo.com
Click
the Email button to the right of red YAHOO
Click
Sign Up Now
Under
Free Edition, click Sign Me Up
Fill
in the following fields:
Yahoo ID: (choose
an ID…lower case, no spaces)
Password:
must be at least 6 characters, all lower case
Security Question:
has nothing to do with password
Type answer
Birthday:
year must be 4 digits
First name
Last name
Leave language as English
Zip
Gender
Industry: Education
Title:
Teacher K-8
No specialization
Uncheck 2 boxes with send me…
Type word you see in the box
Click Submit This Form
Click Continue to Yahoo Mail
To log into your Yahoo
account:
Open
your internet browser
In
the address bar, type www.yahoo.com
Click
the Email button to the right of red YAHOO
On
the right, type your yahoo ID (everything before the @)
Type
your password
Click
Sign in
To check your messages:
You
can do this several ways:
*Click
the Check Mail button
*Click
the link that says Inbox on the left in the folders list
*Click
the link that says Inbox in the middle of your screen
Any
of these ways will take you to your inbox
Click
on a message’s subject to open it (blue and underlined)
Use
the buttons at the top/bottom of the message to do the following:
Delete: delete the message
Reply:
respond to the person who sent you the message
Reply All: respond
to all of the people who received the message
Forward: send the same message to someone else
To
go to the previous message, click Previous (in blue)
To
go to the next message, click Next (in blue)
To
return to your Inbox, click Back to Messages (in blue)
To send a message:
Click
Mail tab
Click
Compose
In
the To: box, type in the person’s email address
OR
you can insert it from your address book:
Click
To: (This should bring up your Address Book)
Put
a check mark in the box next to the person’s name under To:, CC:, or BCC: (CC means carbon copy, BCC means blind carbon
copy)
Click
Insert Checked Contacts
In
the Subject box, type a subject for your message
Type
your message in the large white box
Click
Send
To Add a Contact:
Click
Addresses tab
Click
Add a New Contact
Type
in information (First and Last Name, Email address required)
Click
Save Contact or Save and Add Another
Check
to make sure info is correct
If not, click Edit
If so, click Done
*After
you do the 1st one, use Quick Add Contact
**When
receiving or sending email, if the person is not already in your address list,
it will give you the option to add them
To Add a List:
Click
Addresses tab
Click
Add List
Type
in a name for your list (Teachers, 5th grade, EIP, etc.)
Click
on a person’s name you want to add to this list
Click
Add
That
person’s name should now appear in the box on the right
**To select
multiple names that are consecutive in the list:
Click on the first person’s name
Hold down the Shift key
Click on the last person’s name
Let go of the shift key
Click Add
**To select
multiple names that are not consecutive in the list:
Click
on the first person’s name
Hold down the Control key
Click on the next person’s name
Continue until all of the names you
want are selected
Let
go of the Control key
Click
Add
Click
Save
To Add an Attachment to a
message:
See
above for sending a message
Next
to Attachments, click Add Attachment (in blue)
Click
Browse to the right of the box
It
will prompt you to choose the file
Navigate
to where the file is saved on your computer
Click
on the file
Click
Open
You
should now see the file’s path in the box
Repeat
if necessary for additional files
Click
Attach Files
You
should get a confirmation that the file was attached
Click
Done
You
should see that file listed in your message next to attachments
To Add a Folder: (you might want to do this to organize your
messages)
Make
sure the mail tab is selected
In
the folders list on the left, click Add
Type
a name for the folder
Click
OK
You
should now see that folder in the list under My Folders
When
reading a message, you can select to move it to one of your folders in the drop
down list