Customising BT Yahoo! Mail

Making the Most of Your Home Tab

Making the Most of Your BT Yahoo! Mail Home Tab

The BT Yahoo! Mail Home tab is your personal BT Yahoo! Mail page. Make yours unique by:

Accessing your Inbox.
Checking the weather anywhere in the world.
Viewing your favourite news stories.
Keep up with the latest in sports or get the scoop on the celebrity gossip.
Viewing upcoming events on your BT Yahoo! Calendar.
The Calendar Bar, which spans the bottom of the browser window, shows any scheduled events on your BT Yahoo! Calendar for the current day, as well as upcoming events.
Choosing the page you see when you launch BT Yahoo! Mail.

Cursor and red dot To learn more about the Home tab, hold the cursor over a red dot in the picture below.

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To access your Inbox:

There are several ways to access your Inbox when the Home tab is displayed.

Click the Inbox link on your Home tab.
Click the Inbox tab.
Select the Inbox folder in the list of folders on the left side of the window.

To check the weather:

On the right side of the Home tab banner, click the currently displayed city.

A small window appears where you can type a new city.
Type a city and its location in the box, then click the Go button.

To view your favourite top news stories:

To read a news story, click on the headline of the story in the left-hand panel of the Home tab.

A new browser window opens displaying the story.

To return to BT Yahoo! Mail, click the browser window that displays your Home page.
To change the category of news headlines, click a tab at the top of the left-hand panel of the Home page.

BT Yahoo! Mail updates your Home tab with your selected news category.

Your Home tab displays this category until you change it.

To use the Calendar Bar:

Track upcoming events on your BT Yahoo! Calendar by reading the Calendar Bar, which spans the bottom of the Home tab.

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Click the right arrow to view later events on your BT Yahoo! Calendar. Click the left arrow to view earlier events.

To set the page you see when you launch BT Yahoo! Mail:

In a browser, go to your BT Yahoo! Mail page.
Select Mail Options from the Options menu.

The General options page appears.
To view the Home tab immediately upon logging in to BT Yahoo! Mail, click the Show me the Home Tab button.
To view your Inbox immediately upon logging in to BT Yahoo! Mail, click the Show me my Inbox radio button.
Click the Save Changes button to save your settings.
You can also view your Home tab at any time by clicking the Home tab at the top of your Mail window.

You can change the overall colour scheme of your BT Yahoo! Mail page.