Re: Gmail Grrrr.
On Saturday 21 December 2013 22:37:47 Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:31:16PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to
> > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in
> > the morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up
> > with his emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just
> > freak out when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't
> > just lean over and help.. I.T. = PANIC!
> >
> > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on
> > which there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then
> > click on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either
> > (optimum solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer
> > him the chance to sign in to his Gmail account.
> >
> > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook
> > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. I can
> > sign into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and
> > then in future sign into his account from my account. But I
> > don't want that. I want to sign straight into his account and
> > leave it like that for him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line?
> > Any ideas?
>
> In gmail, click on the "person" icon (it's blue on my screen) and
> that'll let you select "Sign out".
>
> Next time you go to gmail, it should ask you for a user name and
> password, and it'll let you check "stay signed in" or something
> like that.
Should have. I had already tried. It didn't. :-(
But thank you very much for taking the trouble to make a suggestion.
Lisi
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