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You scheduled an email in Gmail, then noticed a mistake.

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Do not look for an Edit button on the pending message.

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Gmail's route is to cancel the schedule, change the draft, and

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schedule it again only if you still want it sent.

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Our exercise uses a fictional message addressed to yourself.

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The practice card has a subject about fictional workshop seats.

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Enter your own email address as the recipient and choose a

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send time at least seven days in the future.

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Gmail schedules according to the time zone you choose, so read

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the displayed date and time before confirming.

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A scheduled message is genuinely pending until cancelled.

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Open the Scheduled folder in Gmail's left panel.

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Find the workshop message and read its scheduled send time.

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This is the first proof that it is queued.

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If you cannot see the folder, expand the left navigation.

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Do not assume that simply closing the compose window cancelled the schedule.

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Open the scheduled message and select Cancel send at the top right.

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Gmail says a cancelled scheduled email becomes a draft.

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Confirm that the compose view is editable and that the old

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scheduled time is gone.

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The message is no longer waiting for that send time.

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Change five fictional seats to six fictional seats in the draft.

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Check the recipient, subject, and body once more.

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For a real message, this is also the moment to correct

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an address before anything is queued again.

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Nothing in the practice message needs to be sent to another person.

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If the corrected message should go later, use the arrow beside

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Send, choose Schedule send, and select a new time.

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Check the item in Scheduled again.

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If you do not want it sent, leave the draft unscheduled.

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For this practice, cancel any new schedule immediately so no test

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message is left pending.

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Your safe finish state is Drafts.

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Scheduled means a future send is still pending, and Sent means

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it has already gone out.

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Use the downloadable answer check to compare each transition.

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These diagrams explain Gmail's documented workflow; they are not a

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recording of a live mailbox test.