Chat enables you to exchange text messages with other conference participants. Messages can either be broadcast to the whole conference, or "whispered" to a single person.
At the end of a Chat session, messages can be archived to a text file for later reference. This makes Chat a useful tool for taking minutes during a conference.
To send a text message to everyone in the conference:
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Set the "send to" option to "Everyone in conference" |
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Type the message in the message entry field |
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Press enter. |
To send a text message to a specific person:
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Select the person to "whisper" to in the "send to" option field (clicking the option button lists everyone currently participating in the conference) |
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Type the message in the message entry field |
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Press Enter: the message will be sent only to the person specified (at the recipient's end, the name of the sender will appear in italics so they can see that it has been whispered). |
You can choose whether to display the following fields along with each message:
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The date the message was received |
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The time the message was received |
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The name of the originator of the message |
These fields are turned on or off by selecting the relevant option from the View menu.
To save the current list of messages, select Save from the File menu. This saves the current message list in plain text format.
To clear the current list of messages, select Clear All from the File menu. You will be asked if you want to save the contents.
When you start Chat, you do not see messages that have already been exchanged in the conference. If you want to see these messages, you can ask another participant to save the file (as described above), and send you the message list in text format, either via File Transfer or by other means such as email or FTP.