I’m going to answer on list because you all are being wonderful in trying to help me, but when I open the gmail form, I don’t see a toolbar per se, that lets me follow your instructions to edit. What I do have is a little wrench that, when I open it, has a selection to cut, copy and paste. For instance, if I want to copy something from Ancestry or another site, to gmail, is that selection going to allow me to copy to gmail? Internet Explorer is my browser, and it DOES have a tool bar that will let me edit, i.e. copy and paste to my Windows Livemail (formerly Outlook Express.) or WORD, from any source I try to copy. I have been able to send many things that way with Livemail. Am I making sense in what I’m asking? I feel so ignorant in this and apologize if I seem dense. Lynn From: Nelda Percival Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:34 PM To: marylindsay1@comcast.net Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] gmail help hi open the email you want the copied item to go into... then go to the item you want to copy... put your cursor over what /where you want to start hold down (until done) the left button now slide the cursor over what you want to copy let the button up - now go to edit in your tool bar and click on it a drop down window see the word copy. click on it now go to the email you want to paste it to - make sure you have clicked the cursor on the spot of the email you want the coppied words /item to post to.. and again click on edit the drop down window and the word paste ... the item/items/words should post the new email... nelda Nelda L. Percival, Administrator of Y-DNA surname projects Gilpin, Cupp, Bonstein and Gillock My Genealogy - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/index.htm GeneticGenealogy - http://www.geneticsand.us Blog - http://aircastles-lets-talk.blogspot.com/ GilpinGenetics: http://www.gilpingenetics.us/ Web Mistress for LCRG - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~molcgdrg > From: marylindsay1@comcast.net > To: roots@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 18:40:46 -0400 > Subject: [ROOTS-L] gmail help > > I am sure everyone will be happy to know that I have signed up with gmail so that Dianna and I can directly correspond, but I have one BIG question! I can’t find any instructions on how to cut and paste. I know many of you have gmail and was wondering if anyone knows how I can send her things that I can easily cut and paste on my Windows Livemail (Comcast) but not on gmail? > Thanks, > Lynn in Baltimore > marylindsay1@comcast.net > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message