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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Find Gmail attachment by name

David Solomon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:29:38 +0000

Gmail offers search feature similar to Google search. it is very easy to use.

If you are looking for an attachment and if you know the name you can do the search by the following method.

Type filename:timesheet

This search will bring all the emails with the attachment timesheet

You can also do this search for file types, If you know that you have a PDF and you do not know the name, you can type Filename:PDF

This search will bring all the emails with the PDF attachment

There should not be any space in between File and Name

You can also do this search by going to the search options screen

You will see the screen as shown below where you can do the detailed search without entering the advanced operators

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Search, Search emails with attachments

David Solomon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:12:18 +0000

Gmail offers the search feature similar to Google search.

You can find all the emails with the attachment by following the steps below.

Type has:attachment in the search box, Gmail will bring all the emails with the attachment in your email.

You can also refine your search using from keyword as shown below

If you want to find all the emails from David and with the attachment type has:attachment from:David

Gmail will bring the emails from David and only the emails with the attachment

You can also do this search inside a label by typing Label:Family has:attachment

This will bring all the emails has the attachment and inside Gmail Label Family.

You can add more search operators and do your search.

If you are looking for more easy way click the search option next to the search button as shown below

You will get a screen with below seen options.

This method is very good where you do not need to enter the keywords

Remember Gmail does not offer searching inside an attachment yet. Yahoo offers this feature where you can search inside most of the attachments.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Play and Download Mp3 file from your Gmail

David Solomon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:18:55 +0000

Gmail offers this great feature where you can play your mp3 attachment on the go. It is fast compared to any other email providers like Yahoo or MSN.

When you receive an email in your Gmail with the mp3 attachment, you can either play� it online or download it.

To do this login to Gmail
Open the attachment that contains mp3 files
At the bottom of the message you will see the attachment

You have 2 options either to download or to play the file
Click Download and the file will be downloaded to your local drive
Click Play to play the file on the web
When you click Play, Gmail opens a new small window and it automatically loads the file as seen below

You can Pause the audio and you can forward it by dragging the slide bar and you can increase the volume
Remember you need to install flash player to use this function from Gmail
You can find the flash player here http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail PPT view as slideshow

David Solomon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:59:16 +0000

When you receive a PPT or PPS attachment Gmail loads that attachment as a slideshow in your browser.

To view your Microsoft Powerpoint attachment as a slide show

Log in to Gmail
Open the message that contains PPT
you will see the link to view the slide show as seen below

Click on the �View as Slideshow� link
Gmail will load the slideshow in a new window
So, even if you do not have Microsoft Powerpoint in your system you can view the slideshow using Gmail.
Attach or forward the email that has the PPT file and view it as slideshow
When you open the slideshow you will see the new window with the options as shown below

Click on the arrow on top of the page to move to the next slide
Right top corner you have number of slide and you can choose which on you want to view
So Gmail is great by offering these type of feature than any other email providers.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks Viewing Gmail Attachments

David Solomon — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:37:37 +0000

Gmail offers great feature of viewing attachment.

Our traditional mailing system always ask us to download the attachment. Gmail has changed that completely.

To view Gmail attachments

Open the message that contains the attachment

At the bottom of the message you will see the attachment with many options as shown below

You can download all the Gmail attachments at once by clicking Download all attachments
When you click that you will get all attachment in a zipped format
If you want to download each attachment separately, click Download next to every attachment
This will only download the specific attachment

Apart from downloading you can view all Gmail attachments without downloading

You can view only the following attachments
.pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, .sxw, .sxc, .sxi, .sdw, .sdc, .sdd, and .wml
This means that your attachment will be converted into HTML and the HTML attachment will open in a new browser
So you cannot view the zip file as HTML

This saves lot of time downloading and organizing your files

When you receive an attachment in Microsoft Excel (xls) format or Comma separated value (CSV) format, you can view those documents with Google spreadsheet and make any changes that you want to.

When you receive an Gmail attachment with Microsoft Document (Doc) format, you can view those documents with Google Documents. You can edit the changes that you want to.

Gmail will store this document in your Gmail account under Google document or Google spreadsheet.

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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail attachment file types

David Solomon — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:20:37 +0000

Gmail offers easy attachment feature that is very powerful.

When you attach any files, Gmail uploads the files as you compose, unlike yahoo mail you do not need to wait for the attachment page to complete the uploading.

Gmail also restricts few file types just to avoid virus issues.

These includes executable files like .exe. You cannot send these files through Gmail, even if you compress these files into the following format these files are not allowed to send.

.exe with compressed formats like .zip, .tar, .tgz, .taz, .z, .gz

If these files are sent, your email will bounce.

But there is also a way to send a .exe file by compressing it using WinRar. This WinRar application can be found free of cost.

You have 20MB mail attachment option in Gmail.

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