Working With the Messenger List
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Use the List’s Contact Cards
Each contact in your Messenger List has a contact card that also lets you quickly begin any type of Messenger communication. Use this card to send an instant message, make a call, send an email, and more.
Here’s How
In the Messenger List, move the cursor over a contact’s name.
The contact card opens.
In the card, do any of the following:
Click an icon or any blue text to initiate communication with the contact.
When you click the Phone icon, select the type of call you want to make from the displayed menu.
Tip: Click the starred phone icon
to
add fee-based calling services from Yahoo! Voice. To learn more, go
to voice.yahoo.com.
If you already have Yahoo! Phone Out, Messenger
will dial the number for you.Click View/Edit Contact Details to open the Contact Details window where you can update this contact’s details.
Click the You appear online/offline to this contact button to change your stealth setting.
Click the Show/Hide Contact Details button to show or hide the contact details section of the card.
To close the card, move the cursor off of the contact’s name.
What’s Next
You can share your Messenger List with any of your contacts. For more information, see the Related Tutorials below.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
- Instant messaging: the ability to exchange messages in real time with other people over the Internet.
- Messenger List: a list of coworkers, friends, family, and associates who also use Messenger.
- Yahoo! Phone Out: a pre-paid Yahoo! Voice account that allows you to make calls using Messenger from your computer to any regular phone or mobile phone in over 30 countries.
- Stealth setting: a setting that allows you to choose when specific contacts see you as online or offline.
- Yahoo! Phone Out: a pre-paid Yahoo! Voice account that allows you to make calls using Messenger from your computer to any regular phone or mobile phone in over 30 countries.