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bdude
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      05-04-2006
I like everything else in the new refresh except one, when I go to 'Send a
new IM' from the context menu, I have to scroll through *every* contact I
have to find someone who's online.
 
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Vitalie Ciobanu
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      05-04-2006
If you're looking for somebody who you know, you can type some letters, or
name, nickname etc of the person you are looking for or enter the email
address. It may help a little, until they do smth related to it.

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"bdude" <> wrote in message
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>I like everything else in the new refresh except one, when I go to 'Send a
> new IM' from the context menu, I have to scroll through *every* contact I
> have to find someone who's online.



 
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John Jay Smith
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      05-04-2006
this is because you can send to the offline ones as well now... but there
could be an option to show only the online ones



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"bdude" <> wrote in message
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>I like everything else in the new refresh except one, when I go to 'Send a
> new IM' from the context menu, I have to scroll through *every* contact I
> have to find someone who's online.



 
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Jonathan Kay [MVP]
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      05-04-2006
Greetings,

There's no option for this I'm afraid.

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"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message news:...
> this is because you can send to the offline ones as well now... but there could be an
> option to show only the online ones
>
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> "What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are."
> - Epictetus 55-135
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> "bdude" <> wrote in message
> news:10657ECE-E582-4CD9-8CE9-...
>>I like everything else in the new refresh except one, when I go to 'Send a
>> new IM' from the context menu, I have to scroll through *every* contact I
>> have to find someone who's online.

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>



 
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Gary Tsang
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      05-05-2006
Why don't you just use the word wheel to search for the contact, then select
it from the search results and send that specific contact an offline
message?

See here for details about the word wheel.
http://spaces.msn.com/messengersays/...29E!1607.entry

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>I like everything else in the new refresh except one, when I go to 'Send a
> new IM' from the context menu, I have to scroll through *every* contact I
> have to find someone who's online.



 
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