How to Make a Conference Call on Skype?
Conference call is one of the most popular features offered by web-based Skype that allows the users to talk to more than one person at a time from the convenience of their own computer.
What are the things required?
Users need only computer with internet access to make a conference call.
What are the steps for making a Conference Call?
Users can follow the below mentioned steps for making Conference Call.
- Visit the Skype website and log in with your user name and password.
- You should click the Contacts tab in the main section
- Locate for your friend’s contact information and then double-click the name.
- Find another friend whom you’d like to invite to conference call by following the similar steps as above. Right-click friends name and select “Invite to Conference” from the appeared menu.
- Alternatively, you can also invite more than one contact to a conference call at once by clicking each contact name while holding down the Ctrl (control) key. Once all the desired contacts are selected, you can click the “Invite Selected Contacts to Conference Call” tab.
- Another way to make a conference call on Skype is to select the friends you’d like to talk with from contacts by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on multiple names. Then you can click “Tools” from horizontal menu at the top of application window and select “Create a Conference Call”. You can also select any additional contacts via the menu that appears.
Tips & Warnings for Conference Calls using Skype
- If a user does not see the Dial tab on his Skype window, he may click “View” on the top menu and select “View Dialpad.”
- User can also get the Dialpad menu by clicking the telephone icon in the top menu.
- Users can select the region or country from where they are calling from the using the “1” pull-down menu. It will make home country of user as default.
- Users must also choose a country code to place a call using Skype.
- In the field next to the number “2,” users can enter the phone number by using the numeric keys on their keyboard.
- Users can add friends to their Contacts list if they call them frequently. This will assist them in choosing their friends with one double-click.
- After a user has dialled his friend’s number once, he will be able to double click his number via the History tab. User can add a friend’s phone number to his Contacts list through the History tab by right-clicking the friend’s phone number followed by clicking “Add to Contacts” from the pop-up menu.
- Users should note that they should not get carried away by calling friends on their cell phones with Skype only because it’s free for them. User’s friends may be charged for minutes that exceed the calling plans.
- Users are not able to invite friends that are not added in their contact list, to a conference call. If a user is looking to invite non-contacts, he can begin the call by dialling the number first or then adding them as contacts.
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