After you successfully log in to Office Live for the first time, you’ll want to check to see if you have received any new e-mail. To do this, start once again at the Office Live home page and follow these steps:

1. Click E-Mail on the Navigation bar or click Inbox from the E-Mail section of the Office Live Home page. All roads lead to Rome — or in this case the Office Live Mail Today page, which now opens. The Today window gives you a synopsis of how much e-mail space you’ve used, and shows you any contacts you’ve recently updated.
2. Click Inbox on the folder list of the Office Live Mail Today window. The Office Live Mail page opens, as shown in Figure 4-9. The Office Live Mail page consists of three columns: the folder list, the message list, and the Preview pane. Your messages appear in the message list column. If you’d like to change the width of one of the mail columns, place your cursor on the vertical line separating the columns until your cursor transforms into a double-pointing horizontal arrow. Hold down your left mouse button and drag the column border to the left or right to resize the column.
3. (Optional) Sort your messages by clicking the Sort By drop-down arrow and choose Date, From, Subject, or Size.
4. Click one of the messages to select it. The contents of the message now appear in the Preview pane.
5. (Optional) Select an e-mail option from the Office Live Mail toolbar:
   • New: Create a new message, folder, contact, or group of contacts.
   • Reply: Allows you to send a response to the e-mail sender.
   • Reply all: Allows you to send a response to everyone who received the e-mail in addition to the sender.
   • Forward: Forwards the e-mail on to a new recipient.
   • Delete: Deletes the currently selected message.
   • Junk: Labels the e-mail as junk mail and sends it to the Junk folder.
   • Print: Prints the currently selected message.
   • Up or Down Pointing Arrows: Allows you to view the Next or Previous Message.
   • Move to: Allows you to move the message to another folder.
   • Check Mail: Refreshes the Office Live Mail window to check for any new mail messages that you might have received.
   • You can select several messages by clicking their check boxes — or (if you’d like to delete a bunch of messages at the same time) click the check box to the left of the Sort by Date button to select all messages.
6. Click Reply or Forward if you’d like to reply or forward a message. The Reply or Forward window opens, as shown in Figure 4-10. If you’re replying to a message you only have to type the body of your message and click Send. If you’re forwarding a message, type the recipient’s e-mail address in the To address field, type you message, and then click Send.

Figure 4-9:
The Office Live Mail page.

Figure 4-10:
Replying to a message.

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