unicornrose 0 Report post Posted April 14, 2005 Tutorial on How to Use Yahoo Groups!1. First thing to remember is it is never as hard as you think it is.2. Yahoo Groups are designed to be simple and easy to use.3. Navigation is as simple as clicking your mouse.4. When you join a group for the first time you should spend some time just looking around the group to get your self-orientated.5. If you want to edit your membership you will find that information in the upper right hand corner next to the words Group Member. The link will read Edit My Membership. This is where you decide what Yahoo Profile you will use if you have one, the email address you will use for this group, and how you wish to receive emails and information from this group. Yahoo is kind enough to give you step-by-step instructions throughout the process.6. On the left hand side of the screen you will find the links to the various parts of your group. In our case you will find links to Home, Messages, Post, Chat, Files, Photos, Links, Database, Polls, Members, and Calendar.7. The Home link will bring you back to the main page that you see when you first log on. You can always click this link wherever you are in the group to go back to the beginning.8. The Messages Link will take you to the last 30 messages in the group. If the group has less than 30 messages it will show you all of them. If the group has more than 30 there are navigational links on the top of the list of messages that say Previous, Next, First, and Last. Depending on where you are in the list of messages they will be clickable. You probably noticed under Messages?Post is slightly indented. Well that is because is in the same category as Messages. Click Post and you will get a screen with a subject box and a message box. It will warn you that your email address will be shown to all who post if the group has that setting on. That is the case in this group. You type your happy message and click the send button. In a few minutes it will be posted to the group unless Yahoo is having database troubles. Then it takes just a little longer. When you are on the title or home page of the group you will notice on the bottom that there is a listing of the latest 5 messages. Also if this feature is on below that you will see the months of the year and a number under each month in that year. That number is the amount of posts for that month. This is yet another way to access the archive of messages. Occasionally you will see that a message number is missing in the chronologically of the messages. This means that someone or the moderator removed the message because either it does not pertain to the group or it is not important enough to keep in the archive. The group is limited in space so sometimes messages get removed. An example of a message that might get removed later is a calendar reminder. Or an ad that has nothing to do with the discussion group. Or an author might decide to remove his or her own post. If you notice this and want to know what happened please ask and if we know we will tell you what happened.9. The chat link will lead you to a yahoo chat board which yahoo provides for all groups unless the moderator turns that feature off. It?s yet another way for the group members to communicate with one another. This is live though. You will need a Yahoo ID to do this I believe.10. The Files Link is for things like this happy document. They are documents and files that the moderator and/or the members thought the group as a whole might find useful.11. The Photos Link will lead you to our wonderful albums of all the pictures from our various events. It can hold pictures that the members wish to share with one another as well.12. The Links Link will lead you to helpful links and bookmarks. These are links to other pages that the moderator or the members thought would be of interest to the group.13. The Database Link will lead to a different kind of file section. This is where you will find tables or can create tables with data for whatever reason seems to fit with the group. 14. The Polls Link will lead you to whatever polls are active at the time for this group. This is where you can vote on issues and questions by the moderator or a member. You can even create a poll.15. The Members link will lead you to the list of all members in the group. If they have a Yahoo Profile you can click on their profile and learn more about them. If you click on their email address you can email them directly.16. The Calendar Link will lead you to our calendar where you will see the upcoming events for the month. Members are free to add their birthdays and other events that they wish other people in the group to know about.The most important thing about groups is having fun! If you are still unsure how to use Yahoo Groups please do not hesitate to ask questions of me or anyone else in the group. Email me at hugaholic@rocketmail.comHugs,Beth Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted December 16, 2009 Erase messages related to emailHow To Use Yahoo GroupsIf you put a message on the site, by emailing it to them, whilst in the group; is there any way to remove that message from search engines to protect your privacy, if you have already unsubscribed from the group?-question by Nali Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted March 13, 2010 remove someone to another groupHow To Use Yahoo Groupshow to do if someone in my list is in the friends group and I want to remove him to the family group? sorry for my speach.Hopw u understood Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
