How to Add a Person to a Chat on Skype

Choosing Skype as your chat and telephone voice over IP allows you to chat for free, save your chats so you can look back on them later and add as many members as you want to your chat without opening up a free-for-all chat room that strangers can enter. Once you’ve opened your Skype application and logged into your account, here’s how to start a group chat on Skype and add people to your chat.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Computer with Internet access
• Skype account

Start a Group Chat on Skype

1. View your groups, located on your Contacts tab in the center of your Skype application. If you can’t see your group contacts, click the Groups bar, located above your individual contacts. This will expand your Groups selection.
2. Right-click the group you wish to start a chat with.
3. Choose Start Group Chat.
4. Welcome your fellow chatters and enjoy your chat time!

Add a Person to a Skype Chat

5. Right-click on an individual or group name that you would like to add to create a chat with.
6. Select Start Chat or Start Group Chat from the menu that appears.
7. Locate the Add More People to this Chat button in the lower right corner of the chat window.
8. Click the Add More… button and select a name to add. To add multiple names at once, hold down the CTRL key while clicking the names.
9. Click the Add button, then OK.

Tips & Warnings

• Add a person to a Skype chat that is already going by clicking the blue button with the “+” in a talk bubble in the upper left corner of the chat window.
• Set a topic for the chat by clicking the icon of the notebook paper and pencil located along the top of the chat window.
• The button with the pictures of people with a telephone receiver creates a conference call with all participants. If you’ve created a conference call with the chatters, you’ll have to add additional participants to both the conference call and the chat individually.
• Create a new chat from current participants by clicking the blue button with words in a talk bubble. This is great if a chat moderator has left the chat but the other participants would like to continue their conversation.
• To send a file to everyone involved in the chat, click the button that looks like a piece of paper with arrows on it.
• Hide or view information about the people you’re chatting with by clicking the left/right facing arrow along the top of the chat window.
• Call, send an instant, hidden message or send a file to an individual participant at any time by clicking the appropriate icon under the participant’s name, located along the right of the chat window.
• Bookmark a chat by clicking the push-pin button located on the menu on the chat window. To access bookmarked chats in the future, from the main Skype window click Tools on the horizontal menu, then choose Bookmarked Chats from the menu that appears. Use the bookmark feature if you think you might need to reference the chat conversation in the future.
• Click the red “X” button to leave the chat permanently.