By Loren Abdulezer, Susan Abdulezer, Howard Dammond, Niklas Zennstrom
Starting a Skype audio call
When you contact a fellow skyper, you can choose whether it will be a text-based or audio communication.
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To make a call, highlight the name of a contact and click the green Call icon on the top of call window to the right of your contact list.
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To make this even easier, you can choose Tools→Options to open the Skype Options menu.
You can see the option groups listed in the pane on the left side of the screen.
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Click the top one, General, to open the General menu.
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Check the When I double-click on a contact start a call option.
Whenever you double-click on a person’s name in your contact list, Skype dials that person. This gives you a quick way to start an audio conversation.
Troubleshooting sound in Skype
Following are some techniques to maximize your sound quality using Skype: