13 Skype Online uses and tricks you might not have thought

Microsoft has provided a fantastic tool to converse through videoconferencing with family, friends or even to make any kind of business or job quickly and easily. Today in this space you will have 13 uses Skype and tricks you might not have thought of.

Block contacts, create group conversations, send video messages at any time, make phone calls to landline or mobile and even send SMS are some tricks you may not know and we can do with Skype Online.

1.Search contacts

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13 Skype Online uses and tricks you might not have thought one

Skype Online gives us the ability to search for users using a search engine that allows us to initially Search through the contacts we have added to our Skype Online account by simply typing the name or email address.

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If we carry out search our list of contacts, we just click on the search button Skype Online and so we get the results of all people that match your search terms we have indicated above.

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If instead of looking indicating names, we search through email, we will obtain more accurate results and succeed in finding the person we really want quickly.

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Another very important option and perhaps even do not know, is the ability to link your Skype Online account to Facebook, having the ability to add or find contact persons who are friends of yours in this social network.

2.Contacts favorites

As we use Skype Online every day, more and more contacts we have added our own and with whom we do communications via chat or video conference. It is natural that our agenda grow, but sometimes this can become a liability.

To facilitate our work, Skype Online allows us to select our most used contacts or we spoke more frequently, marking them as favorite contacts. This feature of Skype Online is easy to use and we will make the most of our time.
To add a contact as a favorite, we only perform the following steps:

We click with the left mouse button on the + symbol to the right of the favorite word

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Then, select the contact or contacts you want to bookmark, clicking the left mouse button on each name.

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And finally press the Add button at the bottom right of your screen area.

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3. Create chat groups

On more than one occasion, we need to create chat groups, either to address labor issues with our team, or just to have a family or friendly hangout. This is possible thanks to Skype Online.

Skype Online lets you create groups quickly and easily, so you can get in touch with a group of people and trying Complete collectively any subject we need.

To do this, we will make the following steps:

     1-First, we click on the icon to create groups, located in the top left, next to the search icon.

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Then we select all the contacts you wish to add to the group, and once selected, in the bottom left we see all the contacts that we have chosen and on the right side will click the Add button to create our group.

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Besides chatting via keyboard with everyone added to the group, we can create group video, voice calls or even send files to all group participants.

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Once created the group, we can enable or disable notifications if you click on the group name.

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And even abandon, bookmark or edit the group name that we created.