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Setting Availability on Yahoo! Messenger

By Brandon De Hoyos, About.com

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Choosing Available

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Choose “Available” from the adjacent availability settings menu to let your contacts know you are available to receive IMs and audio/video chat requests on Yahoo! Messenger. You can also select this option by pressing Ctrl+Alt+A.

Reproduced with permission of Yahoo! Inc. ©2008 Yahoo! Inc. YAHOO! and the YAHOO! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc.

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