Working With the Archives
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Viewing Your Archives
You can view your most recent conversations with a contact right in the IM window. When you begin an IM conversation with a contact with whom you have archived conversations, a Show Recent Messages link appears at the top of the IM window. You can click that link or press the F3 key to view your recent conversations with that contact in the IM window.
You can also view your archived conversations using the Message Archive window.
Here’s How
Open the Message Archive window by selecting Message Archive from the Contacts menu in your Messenger window.
View a list of your IM conversations in one of the following ways:
To see a list of all your conversations, click the Messages folder.
To see a list of conversations with a specific contact, expand the Messages folder, then select the contact’s folder.
Tip: If you have been instant messaging while the Message Archive window is open, select Refresh from the View menu to see the latest archive.
If desired, sort the list in either of the following ways:
Click Date to sort by Date.
Click Contact to sort by contact name.
Select a conversation in the list to view its text in the pane below.
To see the time each message in the conversation was sent, select Show Timestamps from the View menu.
What’s Next
While viewing an archived conversation, you can save, copy, print, or delete it.
Words to Know
- Archive: a place to save a history of all of your instant messages, alerts, conferences, and text messages.
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
- Conversation: an exchange of instant messages between you and a contact.
- IM: the acronym for instant message.
- Instant messaging: the ability to exchange messages in real time with other people over the Internet.