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Without further ado (not that there's been much ado to this point, mind you), here are the basic steps to follow to fire off an email message to some lucky recipient:

1 On Gmail's main menu, click Compose.You end up with the New Message window onscreen, as shown in Figure 2-3.FIGURE 2-3: You cobble together an email message in the New Message window.

2 In the To text box, type the email address of the recipient.It's perfectly acceptable to enter multiple addresses in this text box. After each address, press Enter. (For variety, you can also press Tab or type a semicolon [;] or a comma [,].)What if you make a mistake in the address? Don't sweat it: Double-click the address to open it for editing, fix the error, and then press Enter.What if you want to remove an address? Again, easy money: Click the X that appears to the right of the address.

3 The address you put in the To box is the main recipient of the message. However, it's common to shoot off a copy of the message to a secondary recipient. To do that, click Cc (short for courtesy copy) and then enter the email address in the Cc text box that shows up. (Again, you can enter multiple addresses, if you're so inclined.)You might also want to send the message to someone as a blind courtesy copy (Bcc), which does in fact send a copy of the message to that person but also ensures that none of the other recipients sees that person's address anywhere. Click BCC and type the address in the Bcc text box. It seems awfully stealthy to send a Bcc to someone, so when would you ever do such a thing? The most common reason is that you want that person to see the contents of your message, but you don't want to burden that person with the subsequent conversation. That is, if one of your To or Cc recipients clicks Reply All (which I talk about later in this chapter), that reply doesn’t go to anyone in the Bcc field.

4 Use the Subject line to enter a subject for the message.Now, don't rush things here. The subject acts as a kind of title for your message. It's the first thing the recipient sees, so it should accurately reflect the content of your message, but it shouldn't be too long. Think pithy.

5 Use the large, empty area below the Subject line to type the message text (also known in Nerdsville as the message body).

6 Click the Formatting Options icon to display the impressive collection of commands shown in Figure 2-4.Use these icons and commands to change the font, the type size, and the type style. You can also click More Formatting Options to format paragraphs, add a bulleted or numbered list, and more. Check your spelling before sending your message to the recipient. It just takes a sec, and if the spell checker finds an error or two, you'll save yourself a bit of embarrassment. To run the spell checker, click More Options (pointed out earlier, in Figure 2-3) and then click Check Spelling.

7 When your message is fit for human consumption, click Send.

After your message is outward-bound, Gmail also is kind enough to save a copy of it in the Sent label. This is handy because it gives you a record of all the missives you launch into cyberspace.

FIGURE 2-4: Click Formatting Options to spruce up your message text.