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http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog Shortcuts in the IM window I'm pretty mouse dependent but there are a few keyboard shortcuts in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 that I've added to my everyday computing life. When I'm in a conversation, these are a few of the ones I find especially time-saving: F2 (timestamps) : This will show or hide timestamps in your IM conversation. I find this helpful when I get back to my desk and a new message window is sitting there from a friend. I can't always tell when they wrote me, so I just press F2 to see the timestamp on their message. Hit it again and the timestamps vanish. F3 (recent messages) : This is equivalent to clicking the "Recent messages" link in the IM window. It will expand to show the last conversation you had with that contact. I use this a lot to refer back to what we were discussing without having to go into my full archive (Contacts > Message Archive in the main Messenger window). F7 (display images) : Sometimes when I start an IM to a friend, our display images are missing. Rather than having to click the "Open/close display images" button in the IM window, I just hit F7 to bring them up. Hit it again to hide them. Up/down arrows (prev/next message) : This one I discovered completely by accident and you may have too. When you're typing in the message box of an IM window, use the up arrow on your keyboard to move to the previous message you sent. Hit it repeatedly to keep working your way back through your messages; hit the down arrow to work back in the other direction. To try it out, open an IM window, place your cursor in the message area, and hit the Up arrow on your keyboard. I use this one when I need to resend a message (usually because my friend was so busy responding to an earlier topic or just missed what I wrote). So once I arrow to the one I want, I just click Send (or Enter on my keyboard) to send it again. What shortcuts or tricks do you use the most in Yahoo! Messenger? Sarah Bacon Product Manager Forwarded by: Lenny Vasbinder http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer.
