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Using "Chat" Instant Messaging
Setting Up Chat Accounts
Adding Buddies and Groups
Adding New Groups
Sending a Chat message
Setting Up Chat Accounts
The Chat feature allows you to chat with your friends using your existing user accounts in a variety of popular Instant
Messaging tools. You can also organize your "buddies" into groups, and perform many other functions. You can specify
detailed Preferences settings and log in to multiple IM accounts simultaneously.
Click the Chat
icon. The first time you start Chat, the Accounts dialog box will open. You will be required to
identify at least one of your existing IM accounts to be used with Chat.
1. Ensure you have already created one or more User Accounts in at least one of the supported protocols.
2. Click the Add button in the Accounts window. The Add Account window will open.
3. In the Basic tab, open the Protocol drop-down list and select the protocol associated with the account you wish to add
(such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc.).
4. In the field under the Protocol field, enter the name of the corresponding account, the Password for that account,
and then click Save. (Alias is optional.)
Adding Buddies and Groups
1. In the Chat window, select Add Buddy... from the Buddies Menu. The Add Buddy dialog box will open. It will already
contain your Account Name near the top of the dialog box. The other fields will be blank.
2. Enter the Buddy's username (screen name) and optionally the Alias name of the person you want to add, and specify
the Group you want him/her to be added to. You can either select an existing group from the drop-down list or you
can type a new group name to add a new group.
3. Click the Add button. A notification will display to that person whom you are attempting to add, saying that you wish
to add him/her to your Buddy List. Then he or she can choose to allow it or not. (By the same token, you can choose
to Deny or Authorize attempts by others to add you to their Buddy List.)
Adding New Groups
Select Add Group... from the Buddies Menu. The Add Group dialog box will open. Simply type the desired name for the new
group into the Please enter the name of the group to be added field and then click the Add button.
In the Chat window, you can click on a group name to display a list of all buddies currently in that group.
Note also that if you hover the mouse pointer over a Buddy's name in that list, information about that Buddy will be
displayed. In the displayed information, Has You refers to whether or not that person has you included in his/her Buddy
List. If Yes is displayed, then you are in his/her Buddy List.