I n s t a n t   m e s s a g i n g

the list of search results, select a group name in your Inactive list. You cannot join a group that you already have active. To join

a group that is not listed in the left frame, select 

Join new group

. To create a new group, select 

Create group

.

Chatting in an IM group

To participate in an IM group chat, press Menu, select 

View

 > 

Groups

, an IM group, and 

Join

 > 

Open

. When you successfully join

an IM group chat, the active group chat view is displayed. The left frame is a list of groups that you have created, joined, or

bookmarked. The top frame is a conversation viewer with text of the group chat, and the bottom frame is a message editor

where you type text to participate in the group chat. In the active group chat view, the most common actions are to send an

IM message, to whisper to another IM group member, to invite another IM contact to join the group chat, or to leave the IM group.

Sending a message to the group   To send a message to the group during an active group chat, select the message editor, type

a message, and 

Send

.

Whispering during a group chat   To whisper to another user during an active group chat, select a name in the 

Conversations

folder in the left frame and 

Whisper

.

Inviting a contact during a group chat   To invite a contact to an active group chat, select a name in the 

Online contacts

 folder

in the left frame, and 

Invite

.

Leaving a group chat   To leave an active group chat, select 

End

.

To participate in several active group chats at the same time, select 

Switch convers.

Entering an IM group

To enter a group ID when you join an IM group for the first time, press Menu, select 

View

 > 

Groups

 > 

Join new group

. Type a

group ID up to 50 characters in the format specified by your IM service, and select 

OK

. A group ID may be in the format wv:

\groupname@IMservice.com.

Defining your screen name for a group chat

To identify yourself for an IM group chat, press Menu, select 

View

 > 

Groups

, press Menu, and select 

Tools

 > 

Preferences

 >

Screen name

. By default, your user name appears to others in an IM group chat.

Select from the following:

  In a group   to select a type of name to identify you to a group. Your user name, a unique name that identifies you to the

IM service, cannot be changed.

  Screen name   to type a screen name up to 10 characters.

Creating an IM group

To create an IM group, press Menu in the groups main view, and select 

Create group

. Type a name for the group and invite at

least one person to create the group. After you create a group, you can view the group properties and edit the group default

values.

Inviting several IM users to a group chat

The 

Invitations

 list is a master list of IM users to invite to a group chat. No one is invited to join a group chat until the invitations

are sent.

To invite a friend to a group chat, select 

Invite friend

 from the active group chat view. An 

Invitations

 list of IM users who have

been invited to participate is displayed. The list may identify users by IM user ID or personal screen name. Select 

Invite

contact

 to select users from your contact list or 

Invite other

 to add another user to the list. When the list of invitations is complete,

select 

Send

.

Inviting your contacts to a group chat

You can invite someone on your contact list to participate in a group chat.

To select IM users from your contact list to invite to a group chat, select 

Invite friend

 from an active group chat, view the

Invitations

 list, select 

Invite contact

, scroll to an IM user in the 

Invite online contact

 list, and select 

Mark

. When the list of IM users

to invite from your contact list is complete, select 

Done

 to return to the master 

Invitations

 list.

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