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Making a shortcut to Gmail isn’t as easy as you might think – that is if you want it to look and work the way it should.<\/span><\/p>\n We have recently had several readers who were wrestling with creating a taskbar shortcut to Gmail that works the way it should. So, today, we’re going to show you the right way to create a shortcut to Gmail on your taskbar.<\/span><\/p>\n The right way to create a taskbar shortcut for Gmail.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Open Gmail in the Google Chrome browser. While your Gmail page is open, click the three vertical dots in the top right corner of the browser –> hover over More Tools –> click Create Shortcut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gmail should open immediately. Now look in your taskbar and right-click on the Gmail icon and then click ‘Pin to Taskbar’.<\/span><\/p>\n This creates a taskbar shortcut with the Gmail icon.<\/span><\/p>\n You can drag the icon around on your taskbar to place it exactly where you want it.<\/span><\/p>\n BONUS TIP:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You can use the same method to create a shortcut to Google Calendar, Google Drive, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to Create a Taskbar Shortcut for Gmail the Right Way Making a shortcut to Gmail isn’t as easy as you might think – that is if you want it to look and work the way it should. We have recently had several readers who were wrestling with creating a taskbar shortcut to Gmail that works\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1751,10],"tags":[1900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21623,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622\/revisions\/21623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/g-short.png\")
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\nTick the box next to ‘Open as window’ This makes Gmail open separately from any other browser tabs or in any open browsers.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/g-short1.png\")
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