TIPS for Using Google Groups

[J.R.]

Google Groups takes a reply you send to someone's message and places it under the *same* Subject topic thread you are replying to instead of placing it on the "Home Page" of the group website (like what happens when you make a comment in a forum). This happens even if you change the Subject Line when making your reply.

So it's important to try not to "switch subjects in mid-stream". To start a new Subject/Topic there are two ways to cause your message to be visible on the group home page:

1) From your email program: Start a completely new message with a new subject line and send it to gallery-3-users@googlegroups.com

1) On the website: From the group home page, click on the red "New Topic" button and compose a new message with a new subject line.

IMPORTANT NOTE WHEN USING AN EMAIL PROGRAM :

If you click the standard "REPLY" button, Google *only* sends your reply to the original author (like a private message) -- your reply will *not* be be seen by other members of the group. For everyone to see your reply, you must click on "REPLY TO LIST" or "REPLY TO ALL" -- only then will your reply go out to the whole group so everyone can see and participate in the on-going discussions.

VIEWING TOPIC THREADS:

When you click on a subject/topic thread, often most of the messages are collapsed and you have to click on each one individually to see the entire text. If you want to expand all the messages at once for easy viewing, it can only be done with a keyboard shortcut (I guess Google ran out of buttons). When you are seeing a bunch of collapsed messages, simply hit the lower-case "o" key (not the numberical zero key) and all of the messages will "uncollapse" for easy reading. Sometimes you have to hit the "o" key twice to get it to work.

SOME OTHER KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS you might find helpful at:

https://support.google.com/groups/answer/6148722

--J.R.