Hi Rose, thanks for that explanation. It was really enlightened for me. :-) Could you also please explain how to add a contact to a running conversation? For example I'm talking to you and want to call and add Esther to our conversation?
Thanks and all the best Jürgen Am 08.04.2011 um 23:24 schrieb Rose Morales: > Wow, there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding Skype conferences in > Skype 5. Recently I've found it necessary to be involved in a lot of them, > and it gave me a chance to really play around with Skype 5 conferencing. So I > thought I'd chime in here. To make a new conversation, hit command-n, or go > to file, new conversation. You will have a blank conversation. Now, hit > command-shift-a or the add people button in the conversation window. You will > see an edit field and a table here. Interact with the table to see your > entire contact list, online contacts first. Hit enter or space on each person > you wish to add to a conference. Alternatively, in the edit field, type the > name of a person you wish to add. This can be a display name or a Skype name. > So if you wanted to add me to a conference, you'd type Rose. The results of > your search will show up here. So if you have Rose Kline and Rose Morales, > you would then pick Rose Morales if you were going to invite me to your > conference and not Rose Kline. Perform the same process for each contact you > wish to add. Once a contact has been successfully added using the spacebar or > enter key, their name will show up in the edit field as an embedded image. So > if you're not sure which names you've selected, just read that edit field > back to yourself. Anything that identifies itself as an image is a name > you've added. Any text which is not an image will be something you're > searching for in your contact list. Or at least Skype will assume so. When > you finish selecting contacts and hit the done button, Skype will call each > of the contacts you've added to a conversation. If you simply wish to add a > person to a conversation without calling them, type /add and then a Skype > username into the chat field of your conversation. You can separate multiple > names with commas. If you wish to hang up on an individual person in the > conference and you are the conference host, find the name of that person in > the conversation. It may be before the scroll area or inside it. Vo-shift-m > on their name and hit hang up. Additionally, please bear in mind that if the > conference host hangs up, everyone will get hung up. A new person can host, > but do not try to call each person individually. You must call the entire > conference or no one at all. Only the master of a conference can kick people > from a conference if everyone's rank remains unmodified. That is to say, if > no one receives a promotion by the conference master. Helpers can also kick > people but only if promoted to said level by a master. The master is the > person who added people to a conversation, from what I gather. This can be > different than the creator. Like, say I open up a message to Jeff. I'm the > conference creator. Jeff adds Cara to the chat. Jeff is the master, because > he added Cara. Only the master can promote people to the master rank level. > For more information about the skype ranking system in conferences, type > /help in any Skype chat window. > > Hth, > Rose > > On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Brianna Snyder wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just like the subject says, I'd like to know if you can make a conference in >> Skype 5. I have not been able to figure out how to add someone to an >> existing call. Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Brianna >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
