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Availability

About the availability status

Your availability status is made up of a status message and an availability indicator. You can create a custom availability status by typing
your own status message and choosing an availability indicator. By default, the availability indicator appears as available.

Change your availability status

1.
On the Buddy List® screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click My Status.
3. Click an availability status.
Note: If you change your availability status to invisible, you appear as offline to your Buddies and they cannot send you messages.

Create a custom availability status

1.
On the Buddy List® screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click My Status.
3. Click Edit Away Messages.
4. Type a status message.
5. To add the custom availability status to the status list, select the Add to message list check box.
6. Click OK.

Delete custom availability statuses

1.
On the Buddy List® screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click My Status.
3. Click Clear All Away Messages.

Receive notification when a contact becomes available

You can set alerts to receive notification when a Buddy is available.
1.
In the Buddy List®, highlight an offline Buddy.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Set Alert.
4. Click OK.
To turn off an availability alert for a Buddy, highlight the Buddy. Press the Menu key. Click Clear Alert.
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