You will only see one category at a time. You change which category is shown via Contacts > Contact Categories. The currently shown category will be checked in that menu.
The "Show All Contact Categories" option determines whether your contacts are grouped into categories at all. If you uncheck that, the Contacts > Contact Categories menu will shrink down to just that one option, and all your contacts will appear in the contact list, except of course for any contacts you exclude with options under Hide Contacts Who. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:18:39PM +0200, Jean Philippe wrote: Sorry Doug, the" add to category" item only appears when "view all contact categories" is checked in the contact's menu. But the strange thing is that I can only view one category at a time. I don't really understand how this works but when I checked "view all categories", I get one category only and another item called all other contacts which I don't know what to do with. Can you help? Cheers, JPR http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Lee To: screen access software with skype Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] skype4 groups and categories I believe they are the same, groups and categories. I use Context menus to handle them. Multiselection is possible, but it acts just a bit different than we're used to because arrows themselves don't move selection. Here's my recommendation on how to select a contiguous string of contacts in Skype 4.1: Move to the first one, press Space to make sure it's selected, then Shift+DownArrow once for each contact below it you want. JAWSKey+Shift+DownArrow will tell you who is selected. Then you can use the Context menu and "Add to Category" to add them all to a category. Unfortunately I don't see a way to select several noncontiguous contacts at once from the keyboard. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:08:32AM +0200, Jean Philippe wrote: > Dear all, > could someone clarify the difference between contact groups and categorys > in Skype 4 ? > in fact, I think a contact category in Skype for is exactly what was > called a contact group in Skype three but I'm not entirely sure. And I > haven't found an easy way of moving contacts to a given category. > I can only do it one by one because it is not possible to select more > than one contact to copy into the clipboard yet . > But I don't have any idea about what our groups and how to use them. > Cheers, > JPR > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel > > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that itwill never begin. -- Grace Hansen Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find the way." - Abraham Lincoln
