tutorials for versions 4,0,0,953 - 4,1,0,998 are available [HERE]
More wee tips and tricks for Yahoo Messenger ;-)
[Send the Same Message...]
[Your Name...]
[BUZZing a Friend]
[Stop the BUZZ!]
[Fonts/Colours..]

Send the Same Message...
(you'll be happy to know this is still the same)
... to all your friends at the same time. Sorta like SPAMming your friends but in a nice way ;-) You want to let all your friends know something and the online status message just isn't going to cut it and the idea of typing the same message out 15+ times seems like insanity.. save yourself the brain power and do the following.
Hold the ctrl key down
left click the names of you friends that you want to send the message to
release the ctrl key (all the names should be highlighted blue)
now right click one of the names
select Send a Message

type your message
hit send
ta da!
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Your Name...
Ever gotten mad because yahoo won't let you have that dream Instant message
ID ? heres a way to get any name you want with out haveing to sighn up again.
1st) Launch Yahoo instant messenger
2nd) go to log in
3rd) select "edit contact info"
4th) where it say "nickname " put the Id you wish to have and click on the
"add " botton at the bottom of thw window.
there you're done and you have a nice ID too.
submitted by Codemaster thank you :-)
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Buzzing a Friend...

Ok you little buzzing fiends you'll be thrilled to know that BUZZING lives in this version too.. but this time round Yahoo has added a twist to the BUZZ so check out [IMVironment™] for more info.

Here's how to do the std BUZZ!!!
with the message window to them open
Hit Ctrl+G on your keyboard
This will make their message window vibrate
generating a 'ding' sound
And a bright red BUZZ!!! will appear in the message window
Now if that doesn't get their attention nothing will!
Note: you can only do this every 13 seconds
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Stop the BUZZING!
As mentioned above BUZZ!!! is a very useful wee tool.. but boy it can drive you nuts and sometimes every 13 seconds is just too close for comfort so here's how top turn it OFF! (Thanks Steve-e for saving my sanity!)

Launch Yahoo Messenger click Login
select Preferences
under the Appearance category find Alerts and Sounds
select A Friend Buzzes me
uncheck Shaking the Instant Message Window
uncheck Playing a Sound
hit Apply
hit OK

Peace and Quiet reigns again ;-)
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Fonts and Colour Effects...
You can personalize your font and font colours in messenger to suit your taste..

Fonts..

With Yahoo Messenger launched click Login select Preferences
under the Appearance category find Default Colors for Composing Messages
Hit Fonts and Colors
Select the font, the style and the size.. hit Ok and you're done.

Note: the fonts that are available to use in Yahoo Messenger are the ones currently installed on your own computer.. these are as individual as what you have installed personally so when you choose a font if you wish others to see it also they too must have the same font installed on their computer.. if they dont then simply file transfer or email it to them :-)



Colour Effects (Standard)


To set your color preferences as your default...

With Yahoo Messenger launched click Login select Preferences
under the Appearance category find Default Colors for Composing Messages
Hit Fonts and Colors
under Color Effects hit Choose Effect
hit OK select the colours you want to use
then under Use Color Effect select either
Use Blend Color EffectBlend

or
Use Alternate Colors Effect

once you've made the choice of style and colour decide if you want to always use them.. if so put a check mark beside Always use Colour Effects then hit OK, OK to exit out


To just play around in an instant message window...
click on the Paint Palette in the active IM window then select colour effects or you can also access this by...
hitting Format select Color Effects select the colours you want to use
then under Use Color Effect select either
Use Blend Color EffectBlend or
Use Alternate Colors Effect


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