Step 1: Click the Mail tile on the Start screen. (See right) Step 2: On the left, click your email provider. If it isn’t shown, click View all in Settings and then click Other Account. Step 3: Now type your email address and password into the boxes. Step 4: That’s it! Mail should now open and show you your Inbox with the messages you’ve received in the past two weeks. Your Mail inbox The first column shows your email folders. Click on any of these to see a list of messages in the middle column. Click on a message to read it in the third column. Step 1: To see messages that are older than two weeks, click go to Settings. Under Download email from click the arrow to see a drop down list to choose from. Click to choose, wait a few seconds and you should see more messages appear in the Inbox. Step 2: You can also change other settings such as your email signature. This is set to ‘Sent from Windows Mail’ but you can delete that and type your own into the box. This text will then be automatically inserted at the end of all messages you send. How to reply to an email Step 1: To reply to a message, click the Reply icon. (See right) You will see three options – Reply, Reply All and Forward. Choose Reply to reply to the sender. Choose Reply All to reply to the sender and all the recipients of the original message. Choose Forward to send the message on to someone else. How to send an email Now you are all set up, you are ready to send your first email! Mail refers to emails as ‘messages’. Step 1: To send a message, click the + in the top right hand corner of the window. This will open a new message window. Step 2: In the box next to 'To' type in the recipient’s email address. If you already have some contacts set up, you will see a list to choose from – click to choose. Step 3: In the Cc (carbon copy) box, you can type the email address of anyone else you would like to send a copy of the message to. If you wish to use Bcc (blind carbon copy), click Show more. Any email addresses you add in this box will be invisible to the other recipients. Step 4: Click Add a subject to type a subject for your message. Step 5: Click Add a message to type your message. Step 6: When you are ready, click the Send icon at top right of the window. (See right.) - See more at: http://digitalunite.com/guides/computer-basics/windows-8/how-use-email-on-windows-8#sthash.V3f3jyGB.dpuf