In this lecture, you're going to learn how to create a new email message. And I'm going to show you a couple different ways that you can do this. The first way, we'll make sure we're on the Home tab, we're going to click new email in the new group. And it's going to open up our email message so we can create it from here. We'll go ahead and close this. Second way you can do it is through shortcut keys Ctrl Shift M. Once you do that, it will also open up a new email message so you can compose your email.

We'll close this and do one final way. If we're in another app, we'll make sure we're on the Home tab within that app. We'll go to the new group. We'll click on the down arrow next to new items and choose email message. That's also going to take us into our email message dialog box so we can compose our message. Once we're in our box, we've got different areas that we need to fill out.

Now one thing you'll notice is I've got my BCC showing on here. I set it up so that I could automatically add any BCC without having to go through a couple clicks. If you want to set that up on yours as well, all you need to do is go to the Options tab, go to show fields, and click BCC, and it will add it. If you want to add from also click on that, and it will add it as well. So you can see your name on their, their toggle. So if you don't want it on there, just click on them and it will remove them.

Let's go back to our message tab. There's a couple ways that you can add recipients to your message, you can initially just start typing them in. Once you start typing, if it's somebody you've already sent messages to it's going to pull up the names. So it's going to do what's called an autocomplete. It's going to take what you've typed in and try to determine who you want to send the message to based upon that. If it pulls up a name you want to use, click it and it'll add it.

It'll put a semi colon after it so you can come out here and you can type in another name as well. Or you can click on to, and it's going to take you into your address book. So you can pick people from here as well. Once you highlight it, you want to pick if you want it to be a recipient, a cc of it or a BCC of it. We'll click BCC for this one and click OK. It'll add it there.

Now you'll notice this has a plus next to it, that means it's a group. So if I click on the plus, it's going to tell me it's going to expand it out. So I see all the members. Once I do that, it won't be able to shrink it back up. So we'll just say cancel, but if we wanted to see the whole list, just click on the plus, we'll come down and add our subject. And then we'll click in the body area and type in the body of our message.

At this point, I could add any information I needed to if I wanted to, I could come out and add a table if I had a table of information on my table, start filling in my information changed by formatting from my table, so you can get as detailed as you want within your message. But keep in mind, it is just an email message. So if you've got a lot of information you need to compose, and you want to do a lot of editing with it, the best thing to do is do that within a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, whatever you're working with, and save it and attach it to the email message. Once I have my information, I can go ahead and click the Send button and it will send it out. Now I've got mine set up so that it automatically run a spellcheck.

Once I click the Send button, so that it can go through and find any errors for me so that I don't inadvertently send something out with all kinds of spelling errors in it. I'm going to ignore all of these and send it and you can see down there it's sent the message out for me. So that's how you create a new email message and send it out. In the next lecture, we'll go over working with attachments