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Drag and Drop

May 25, 2005 06:42 PM

Topics: Tips & Tricks

A simple little tip. Skype likes slipping in new features and this one could have been there forever. It will be on some release notes. Still it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I learned you could "drag n drop" files into an open chat windown and that would auto-magically activate the send file transfer. Simple as that and much quicker if the folder is already open.

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Posted by: Jaanus Kase at May 26, 2005 12:42 AM

Try also:

* dragging contacts from chat to contactlist

* drag contacts from contactlist to chat

* drag contacts from one chat to another

Posted by: wang.li.ming at May 26, 2005 9:13 PM

That's the way I sent you the USB Skype phone information while we chatted on the chat window. :)

Posted by: Stuart Henshall at May 26, 2005 10:50 PM

Jaanus
Thanks! Sometimes it is surprisingly difficult to learn new behaviors. Old systems train us in certain ways. Now I try to drag and drop everything. So what I want next is the send file to be part of the chat message record! Incorporate the sending in the chat window.
Thanks
Stuart

Posted by: Peter Henning at May 29, 2005 7:25 AM

That would be awful Stuart. It would be like simulating MSN or Yahoo. A lot of people like myself use FT during a call not a chat. And I hate it if a chat window would pop up just to send a file! Keeping the communication methods (call, chat, ft, etc) separate makes Skype so great. In every other messenger they are cramped together in the chat window. :(
Regards,
Peter Henning

Posted by: bornowsky at June 4, 2005 6:24 AM

Does the French version exist? Thank you

Posted by: Wayne at December 24, 2005 9:15 AM

The little emoticons are nice but I woud like to be able to drop a pic in the middle of my own chosing. Not a file but a pcture. I trid saving to the emoticons but that did not work.

Posted by: BECKY sAVAGE at September 23, 2006 4:24 PM

I KNOW HOW TO DRAG AND DROP, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE I CAN DROP IT FOR LATER USE. THANKS

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