By George Norman
Added on 09 Dec 2009(11840 Views)



Personally I choose not to see offline contacts in my Yahoo! Messenger contacts list. In this regard I toggle offline contacts visibility with a simple keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + H. Press Ctrl + H once and all offline contacts will be hidden out of view; press it again and all offline contacts will once again be displayed.

Alternatively you could click Messenger -> Contacts -> Show/Hide -> select Offline Contacts. But using a keyboard shortcut is a lot more convenient. Speaking of convenience, a detailed list of all the keyboard shortcuts you can use in Yahoo! Messenger is available here.

Other people choose to view all their contacts – online and offline ones. This tutorial is for them. They might like it if online contacts were listed with bold characters while offline characters are listed with regular characters. If you would like to do this, here are the steps you must follow:

Step 1. The first and obvious step is to launch Yahoo! Messenger. Once the application is up and running, user your login credentials to sign in.

Step 2. Look to the upper left hand side of the Yahoo! Messenger window, locate and click the Messenger button.

Step 3. From the dropdown menu that appears select Preferences. The Yahoo! Messenger Preferences window will appear.

Step 4. Under Category, click Appearance (left hand side).

Step 5. Now look to the right. At the bottom of the window there’s a piece of text that says Show online contacts in bold text. Check the box next to this text.

Step 6. Click Apply -> click OK and you’re done.

Tips and warnings:
  • The latest version of Yahoo! Messenger (at the time of writing this) is Yahoo! Messenger 10. If you’re using previous versions you are well advised to upgrade and take advantage of the enhancements version 10 brings to the table. Learn how to easily upgrade to Yahoo! Messenger 10 here. See what’s new in Yahoo! Messenger 10 here.




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