Some Tips & Tricks for Skype Users

Since 2003 Skype become a regular form of online communication in Earth. Millions of people use it for voice calls, video calls & text messaging for data cost only. You can also call mobile & landline numbers for small little fee.

Here some Tips & Tricks related to Skype that make easy to use.

1. BACKUP & TRANSFER YOUR SKYPE CONTACT

For do this click on "contacts" menu then go Advanced option and click "backup contacts to file".
Its generate contact.vcf file which you can save on your computer drive.

You can send the .vcf file to other computer and restore it.

For restore sing into Skype account click "contacts" menu then go to "advanced" option and click "restore contacts from file" now you select the .vcf file form your computer drive.

2.  EDIT YOUR LAST MESSAGE

You can re-edit your last send message. Simply press Up Arrow  key from keyboard your last message will appear just edit and hit enter to end again.

3.  MAKE DIRECT CALL FROM CONTACT LIST.

You can make call by double clicking any Skype contact.
For do this Go to "Tools" - "Options" - "General Settings" then tick the check box "When I Double-click on a contact start a call"

4. HIDE THE TYPING INDICATOR. 

You can see moving pencil when the other end person typing If you want to keep this off  you have to go "Tools" - "Options" - "IM & SMS" - "IM Settings" - "Show Advanced Options" - and finally tick the check box "Show when I am Typing".

5.  CLEAR YOUR CHAT HISTORY.

You can clear all of your chat history on Skype . To do this go to "Tools" - "Options" - "IM & SMS" - "IM Settings" - "Show Advanced Options" - "Clear History". You can also clean by time frame its shows in "Show Advanced Option" now select the time frame.

6.  KEYWORD NOTIFICATIONS

You can choose notification for particular words in personal IM window. To get this features go to IM click on "Conversation" menu  then "Notification Settings" click on "Notify me only if these word are mentioned".

Input the all words that you want to be notified of in the IM.

N.B This settings will disable all other notifications apart from specified keywords.

7.  HIDDEN EMOTIONS & SMILEYS

There are more emotions hide in Skype. You can see some of them in emotions set, but you can use others emotions by using short codes.

Here take a look.  

Some short codes 

(poolparty)

(talk)

(headbang)

(drunk)

(toivo)

(bug)

(u)

(e) (m)

(skype)

(smoking)

8. STOP ANIMATION IN EMOTION

You can pause animated emotions by going "Tools", - "Options", - "IM & SMS", - "IM appearance" unchecked "Show animated emotions" checkbox.

9.  ENABLE HOTKEYS

You can make your frequently used functions as hotkey shortcuts. There are also default shortcuts for few functions.

To enable go to "Tools" - "Options" - "Advanced" - "hotkeys" click on "Enable Keyboard Shortcuts" checkbox.

10.  SET YOUR CALLER ID

By set your caller Id other side of caller can see your original number.

To set click on "Skype" - "Account" It will open a webpage click on "Caller ID" - select "Country/Region" - "Phone number" - :Verify Number", That is all.