skype:yourskypename?chat - Using this function will allow your recipients to send you a message to your Skype profile.

skype:yourskypename?call - Using this function will allow your recipients to call your Skype number directly from their device.For Skype, there are 3 commands you can use that instead of linking to a website, will open the user's Skype app and perform an action. Once you have added your Skype social icon, select the link or chain icon to add a URL or in our case for Skype, a URI. Go to your Links tab then add your social icon of choice by filtering the icon options and typing Skype in the search bar. Login to your Email Signature Rescue account.Ĭreate a new email signature or edit a previously created email signature by selecting the Edit button on your dashboard. Simply search for Skype, filter by the type you want, then add your icon!įollow our simple 3 steps below to add a functioning URI command to your Skype social icon in seconds: Step One: With Email Signature Rescue you can select from a gallery of over 200,000 icons, filter by 8 different styles, 11 sizes and 38 colours to get the perfect match for your business branding. Note that you can have more than one Skype account with the same email address, Also pay attention to the checkboxes on the bottom: make sure you check off what you want and no more, so you don’t have to get any unwanted email.Is Skype a key component of your business for people to reach out and contact you? You might not know this, but you can add a link command to any image or text to allow the end-user to call you, send you a chat message, or add your Skype profile with a single click. Here you can see that I’m setting up a Skype account for “AskDaveTaylor”. Now you go to the login window like you do when you first start up the Skype app, but this time the fields are empty:Ĭlick on “Don’t have a Skype Name?” and you’ll get the window that lets you specify the credentials for the new account you want to create:

The trick to getting a new account is to go through the motions of switching from one account to another, even though you don’t yet have a second account. Don’t have that yet either? You can easily download it right from.

It’s not obvious how to set up a new account, however, but you can do so from right within the Skype Mac client. Sure I can! Glad to help out, because I’m sure that your son will be happier without you using his account and I know you’ll be happier to have your own Skype account!

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