How many acquaintances do we have who are far away from us? Maybe they are even outside the country where we live and without a doubt that makes us nostalgic. That is why many have decided to use Skype instead of another application as a tool to communicate with their acquaintances and family, of course for that you must add the contacts.
Whether with text messages, audios, videos or by making free calls from your mobile, you can maintain communication with family, friends, colleagues and other acquaintances, thus shortening the distance and solving the terrible problem of communication, and you will not only hear their voices, because you can also see them when making video calls easily.
If you have already decided to use Skype to communicate, then we want to help you use it well. Therefore, through this tutorial we will explain in a simple way how you can add your contacts to Skype. You will surely want to have many! Join us in this reading and you will then enjoy the company of the contacts you want on your Skype.
What is the route to follow to add contacts?
When you open Skype you will notice that at the bottom of the left panel there is a tab that says “Add a contact”. Clicking on it opens a window that shows “Add contact”. In this area you will have the option to locate someone using their own name or contact name, or by their cell phone number.
If you have found the one you are looking for, click on “Add”, you can search field by field in case you do not have good results in your search.
When adding the contact you will have to send them a request, so you will see an icon that will allow you to do so. Until the person you are adding accepts it, you will still see them on your screen as if they were offline, but their online status will change as soon as they approve it. This way you will have successfully added a new contact to your list.
How can you better manage your stored contacts?
By having many contacts added, the best thing you can do is organize them according to the communication priority you have with them.
One option is to place as “Favorites” all those with whom you chat the most, in this way you will always have them at the top of the contact panel. To do this action you right click on the contact name and change to this condition.
To make it easier for you to locate your contacts when calling on Skype, you can group them into family, friends or frequent contacts. To do so, you create a new list of contacts, name it with the name that you consider most convenient. You go to the contact you want to add and insert it into this list by right clicking on the person and clicking “Add to list”.
Keep in mind that you can only add them to a single contact list. This is just to mention some options to organize yourself better.
What happens if for some reason I lose my contacts?
Well, it’s nothing to worry about because all the contacts you’ve added are stored on Microsoft servers. But if you want to play it safe, you can back them up by selecting the “Advanced” option in the contacts menu and giving it “Back up contacts to a file”. From there you can save them to the destination of your choice.
If it is necessary to restore your contact list, in the same way from the “Advanced” menu you click on the “Restore contacts from file” button and that’s it, once again you have all your friends and acquaintances on your list at your disposal.
Go ahead and download or upgrade Skype for free, start adding contacts and chatting with them and we want you to feel right at home when you sign in to your Skype account. That is why we have made an effort to explain to you in a simple way how to add each one of your acquaintances. If this post has been useful to you, please leave us your valuable comment.
