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Cisco Jabber supports both person-to-person and group chat sessions.
You can start a chat with someone who is not in your contact list by searching for the contact in your corporate directory.
During a chat session with someone who is not in your contact list, you can add them to your list. This feature is available only for a person-to-person chat.
Three or more people constitute a group chat. This type of chat continues to exist in Cisco Jabber as long as one person is in the chat window. After all participants leave, the group chat ends.
You can add participants to an existing person-to-person chat, or to a group chat.
By default, chat alert sounds are turned on for those events that support sounds. You can choose whether to receive chat alert sounds for all messages, or for just initial chat messages. You can also disable sounds for all events.
In the chat window, you can choose from a variety of fonts, colors, and emoticons to apply to your chat conversation. You can also set a global format option for all of your chat messages, both incoming and outgoing.
You can start a chat with contacts from Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint if the feature is available in your Cisco Jabber setup. Ask your administrator if this feature is available. For a list of which versions of these applications support this feature, see Integration with Microsoft Office Applications.