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If you click the dial pad icon, a screen with a dial pad will appear that allows you to call people’s landline and mobile phones from Skype. If you click the house icon, you will return to your main screen from almost anywhere else on Skype. The icons below the search box do various things. If you click in the box labelled “Search” and type in a person’s name, Skype name, or email address, Skype will look to see if they exist in your list of contacts, or in its main directory. If you choose Offline, nobody can use Skype can contact you, and vice-versa. If you choose Do Not Disturb, you will not be notified when someone else tries to contact you. Your online status shows other people if you are (or aren’t) available to contact.

You can also click the small icon beside your picture to change your online status to Online, Away, Do Not Disturb, Invisible, or Offline. Click your name or picture to bring up a screen where you can see and edit your profile. The top-left portion of the screen shows your name as it appears on Skype, your profile picture, and your current status. Therefore, we’ve logged with a pre-existing account to show you some additional things that you’ll see after you’ve been using it for a while. When you log into Skype with a new account, there won’t really be much to see at first. Don’t worry about these too much you can always adjust them later. When you log into Skype for the first time, it may ask you to adjust your audio and video settings. On the next screen, click in the box labeled “Password” and type in the password that you picked for your account. When prompted to log in, click the box labeled “Skype Name, Email, or Mobile” and type in the Skype Name, email address, or phone number associated with your account. How to log into Skypeįind your Skype program on your device and quickly click it twice (or tap it) to open it.

You can use it like an instant messaging program, make phone calls with it, or even talk with someone face-to-face by using video chat! While we’ll be going over these features in more detail in later tutorials, for now we’ll give you a quick tour of how to use the main interface of Skype, and show you a few other screens that you’ll commonly see. The great thing about Skype is that there are many different ways to use it.