You can e-mail more than one person simply by adding their address in the TO: line.

It's a useful way of letting lots of people know what's going on without writing separate e-mails.

So, next time you want to invite people to your birthday party it won't take you a moment.

How to do it

After you write the first e-mail address put a comma or semi colon and a space and then write the next address.

It looks like this:

If you select the names from an address book, don't worry. The comma or semi-colons are usually added in automatically.

Make a group

When you are sending all your family the latest news it's really useful not having to type the message and addresses over and over again.

If you repeatedly send e-mails to the same group you can create a group in your address book.

Rather than add just one name to your address book you add as many as you want and then group them.

Instead you just tell your e-mail program to send a message to 'Family', for example, and it will send it to all the addresses you have put in the family group.

What do 'Bcc' and 'Cc' mean?

As well as being able to send multiple e-mails by entering several addresses in the 'To:' box, there are two other boxes called 'Cc' and 'Bcc'.

'Cc' means 'carbon copy' and means a copy of the e-mail is sent to everyone in the 'Cc' box. When people get these e-mails, they can see all the other people who got the same message.

Sometimes you don't want people to know who else was on the list so 'Bcc', or 'blind carbon copy', can be used. It works exactly like 'Cc' but none of the names entered in the 'Bcc' box can be seen by the other recipients.

'Bcc' is also a good way of hiding e-mail addresses from spammers!