EMAIL – Windows Mail Live, gmail account

Hi All,

I have a Win 8.1 laptop. I have setup a gmail account for email. Two questions -

1. can I reply to email? if so, how?

2. can I copy an email? In particular I want to copy the contacts in the TO section of the email since I have to send a periodic

    email and have over twenty one contacts. This was something I could do in Win XP using Outlook Express.