How to set up a Google account

[Originally intended for a specific purpose - to get everyone in our choir on Gmail so we could set up a Google group and stay in touch easily.  If that's like what you want to do...read on!]

To access the choir group page, you will need a Google account.  This is easy to set up and you can redirect all the mail that comes to it to your existing email address, so all will carry on as normal in your email world.

It will be useful to have everyone able to access this page, as we can easily share files.

Here’s what you do:

1. Go to www.gmail.com and click ‘Sign up for Google Mail’ at the bottom right.
2. Fill in the form, choosing your spangly new email address.
3. A screen will appear telling you about Gmail’s super-duper features.  Click ‘I’m ready – show me my account’ when you’re ready and want to be shown your account.
4. Your new account shall appear.
5. Click on ‘Settings’.
6. Click on ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP’.
7. Where it says ‘Forward a copy of incoming mail to…’, fill in your main email account.  (The button to the left of the line will automatically ‘switch on’.)
8. My personal preference would be to change ‘keep Gmail’s copy in the inbox’ to ‘archive Gmail’s copy’.  Up to you.
9. Click ‘Save changes’ at the bottom of the yellow box.
10. Email your new Gmail address to newdublinvoices@googlegroups.com and I’ll add it to the group.  You need never use the Gmail account again – all the group emails will be forwarded to your normal email account.