Customize Chat Background

You can customize the background of any chat window by adding a picture or graphic to the background. This comes in handy when you’ve got several chats going on and don’t want to get confused about who is in which window.

This image will appear only on your computer—the person you are chatting with will not see it. As soon as you close this chat window, that background disappears and will not automatically re-appear anywhere.

To customize a chat window:

1.
Click anywhere in the chat window that you want to customize (this is just to select that window).
2.
From the View menu, choose “Set Background....”
3.
In the dialog box that appears, select an image file that’s on your computer, then click “Open.” OR you can simply ...

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