Multi Person Chats in Skype

Click on the Contacts tab to display your contacts list. While holding down the control key on your keyboard, click on the Skype users with whom you want to conduct a chat session. With multiple Skype users thus selected, click on the Chat button of the Skype toolbar; or rightclick with your mouse and choose Start Chat from the popup menu that appears. Starting a chat session in this manner will open a chat window with all the selected Skype users as active participants.

How to Search Other Skype Users?

You can search for other Skype users in two different ways. First, you can click on the Add Contact button on the toolbar, which opens a new window in which you can search for a Skype user by entering that person’s real name, Skype name, or e-mail address. Second, by clicking on the Search button on the toolbar, a window opens that allows you to search for a Skype user by entering that person’s real name, Skype name, or e-mail address; but in addition, you can search using these criteria: country, state, city, language, gender, and age range; and you can also search for people whose online status is in Skype Me mode.

How to Call Other Skype Users?

If the person you want to call is already in your contacts list, the simplest way to call him or her is to go to your contacts list (click on the Contacts tab to display the contacts list panel), select the contact you want by clicking on it with your mouse, and then click on the call button. This starts a call and opens a tabbed call panel for that call. Alternatively, once you have selected the contact, rather than clicking the call button, you can either double-click on the selected contact, or right-click on the selected contact and pick “Start Call” from the popup menu that appears.
If you want to call someone who is not in your contacts list, you must first enter his or her Skype username in the address bar, and then hit the enter key on your keyboard or click on the call button. This will open a tabbed call panel for that call.