Chat lets 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:
To send a text message to a specific person:
The message is sent only to the person specified. At the recipient's end, the name of the sender appears in italics, which indicates that the message has been sent specifically to them.
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 are 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 and send you the message list in text format, either via File Transfer or by other means such as email. Note that you will not be able to see messages that were "whispered" to other participants.
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