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Reading Your Messages
When viewing a list of conversations in your Inbox or in any list of labeled
conversations, you can open a conversation to read its messages.
To read a message
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Touch a conversation that contains the message you want to read.
A conversation opens to the first new (unread) message, or to the
first starred message, if you’ve previously starred a message in the
conversation. See “Starring a Message” on page 150.
The Google Talk online status will appear next to the name of the
sender of each message if the sender has a Google account.
Touch that status indicator to open Quick Contact.
See “Connecting Quickly With Your Contacts” on page 56. When
reading messages in a conversation, you can use the buttons at the
bottom of the screen to archive the entire conversation (see “Archiving
Conversations” on page 117) or Delete to delete it.
After you delete a conversation, you can touch Undo in the yellow bar
that appears at the top of the screen to undelete it. You can also touch
Older to read the next, oldest, unread message in a conversation in
your Inbox (or the conversation list you’re working in).
You can scroll to the bottom of a message to access buttons for
replying to or forwarding the message, as described in “Replying to or
Forwarding a Message” on page 111.
This conversation has one other message.
It has been minimized because the
message has already been read.
Touch a sender’s Google Talk
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Status
icon to open the Quick Contact menu.
You can archive or delete the
entire conversation or read your
next, oldest, unread message.
This conversation has one label.