Changing your chat settings
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Do one of the following:
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On the Chat List page, click
Settings.
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Inside a chat, click Settings.
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On the Chat List page, click
- Enter a new alias in the Alias field. Depending on your permissions, you can change your alias, or chat name, if you want to appear as a different name, such as a nickname, to other chat participants.
- Select the check boxes for Bold or Italics.
- Set an Alias Color.
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If you want to change the message order, select New to Old or Old to New. If you want to see new messages only, select New Messages. This requires you to manually refresh the screen, to see new messages and remove all old ones.
Note You can change back to see all messages, which restores all messages for that session, even if they were not visible while New Messages was selected.
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You can change your sound settings so you can hear a sound when someone enters the chat, leaves the chat, or when there is an incoming message. Select a sound from the following drop-down lists:
- Incoming Message Sound
- Person Enters Chat Sound
- Person Leaves Chat Sound
- Click Save.