Tips for Using Skype
Seven Ways to Use Skype File Transfer
- Use the Skype client’s Send File button
- In a Skype Chat session either use the Send File button or drag a file into the Chat window
Right click on any file in Windows Explorer and use the “Send To” feature selecting Skype as the option- Via the Skype Toolbar for MS Office there is an option to send the file you are currently working on (even though it is still open in, say, Word, Excel or PowerPoint
- Using Outlook with the Skype Email Toolbar transfer files received in emails
- SnagIt: with the Skype plug-in added to SnagIt, capture a screen area as Input and select Skype in the SnagIt toolbar. Select the contact(s) to whom you want to send the screen capture and Send it.
- When you want to send information from a Contact in Outlook’s Contacts View, drag the vCard into the Skype Client and the relevant name/address phone number/email address will end up in your Skype Chat Client.
Two ways to edit Skype Chat messages
It’s always so frustrating, you post a message into a chat session and realize there are either typing errors, missing or duplicated words or, in retrospect, the message says the opposite of what you intended. Or maybe you put a message into the wrong chat session. With encrypted Skype Chat, there is an opportunity to redeem yourself. Skype has two ways to edit a previous chat message and one way to remove previous messages, provided you edit fairly quickly after posting a message:
If it is the most recent message in a chat session, you can simply use the Up arrow to put the text of the message back into the editing window, edit the content and resend it.
For messages sent in the previous 10 or 15 minutes, you can right click over the text of the message and a menu will appear with the options to “Edit Message” or “Remove Message”.
Initiating a Conference Call: A Skype user can host a conference call involving up to ten participants, including the host. The most common way to start a call is to select several Skype contacts, then click on the Create Conference at the top of the Contacts tab in the Skype client. Or select an initial participant in the call, click Create Conference and a list of all your Skype Contacts will appear from which you can select participants or add a participant’s SkypeOut number.
During a Call – Adding Participants Spontaneously: One of the interesting aspects of Skype is how you can readily build a conference call by adding and removing participants during a call as the situation requires. Start a normal two-party call or a multi-party conference call, then select “Add a Caller” at the top of your Call tab. The Conference Call participant selection menu will reappear and you can then select (a) Skype Contact(s) and/or enter (a) SkypeOut phone number(s) to build the call. Of course, during a call, the host can remove participants by selecting on the participant in the Call tab, right clicking and selecting “Remove from Call”.
Each individual participant coming into the call via a SkypeOut number is treated as a separate SkypeOut call for the purpose of charging minutes against any Skype Credits or SkypePro plan.
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