Mute and remove participants during a Skype group call. Mac issues during a Skype call: We've fixed the Skype calling issues on Mac. Windows Desktop, Mac and Linux 8.11.0.0 begins rolling out November 20, 2017, and releases gradually over the next two weeks. As soon as it does this once then the headset will mute itself in every other application that includes audio. If I reboot I can use other applications as normal but as soon as I start Skype for Business and initiate another call it is right back to the same behavior. This is unbelievably annoying. It is/was about the Skype Mac pre-release.

Do you use keyboard shortcuts during the workday? Odds are most of us do. Cut & paste, switching windows, opening/closing programs Most Microsoft programs have plenty of keyboard shortcuts built-in. Lync 2013 is no exception. Until recently, I only knew a couple of them. But when I came across the big I blogged about last month, that changed fast.

Where to Download the Lync Keyboard Shortcuts Guide One of the guides on that page is is titled “Lync 2013 Keyboard Shortcuts”. It’s a short PDF, merely listing out all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to get around Lync. I didn’t mention it in last month’s blog post for one reason–it deserved its own.

Most of the shortcuts you’ll find in the PDF are for Lync 2013 on Windows only. (They use the Windows logo key.) For Mac users, visit this page: (I have no idea what the name of that Mac key is.) Ready? Let’s see what kind of keyboard shortcuts we have! Conversations Shortcuts Accept a conversation invite (use anywhere) – Windows+A Decline an invite (use anywhere) – Windows+Esc Accept an invite (while in Conversation window) – Alt+C “Engage Privacy Mode” – ignore any invite notifications. Alt+I Change between conversation windows – Ctrl+Tab Save an IM log in Conversation History – Ctrl+S (This one saved my bacon a few times) Phone Calls Shortcuts Accept a call* – Alt+C Mute your audio – Windows+F4 Place a call on Hold – Ctrl+Shift+H *As of now, I don’t see a shortcut for initiating a call. It’s still very easy to do, by either clicking Call on a contact or typing a phone number into the Lync 2013 search window. If I were to guess the reason for no shortcut here, I would say initiating a call prompts Lync to examine its contacts database and conversation history, for auto-complete. How to underline a word in word.

Using a keyboard shortcut could circumvent this process, and thus cut you off from some of Lync’s functionality. Hence, no shortcut. (Besides, you do have the Lync Browser Helper to launch click-to-call in other windows. That counts as a shortcut!) Meetings/Presentations Shortcuts Start a “Meet Now” meeting – Alt+M If Presenting: start/stop sharing, fullscreen/come out of fullscreen, close the sharing stage, switch views gallery/speaker Persistent Chat Shortcuts You can use the same shortcuts you see above for conversations.

Save Yourself Some Time in Lync 2013 with These Keyboard Shortcuts This isn’t all of the keyboard shortcuts, of course. The full list is in the PDF linked above. It’s also available on its own Office.com page: Keyboard shortcuts are there for one reason: To save us time while working. With these shortcuts, Lync’s windows and popups are less of a disruption to workflow, and more of an additional tool. There’s one shortcut missing here: Switching your Presence status.

I’d really like to have that one in Lync 2015. Microsoft, you listening?

I do a lot of business via Skype and often have a chat window open with my partner while we’re on the line with a client. We have a backchannel conversation going on so we can ensure we’re in agreement on terms, schedules, etc, but what drives me crazy is that each time I get a chat message there’s a small “bloop” sound. Can I turn this Skype audio notification off?

There are a couple of ways you can sidestep this, the most obvious of which is to actually connect via a different instant messenger service with your partner, but there’s also an easy way to tweak Skype to stop pushing out those annoying audio notifications. I’m with you too. They drive me crazy, and for me it comes up while recording episodes of my two weekly podcast programs [iTunes] or [iTunes]: while we’re chatting we’ll also IM each other time checks, reminders of other topics, etc. Audio notification is not appreciated! If you have external speakers, you can configure your Mac or PC to use the built-in speaker for notifications, while the audio out from the Skype session itself comes out the external speakers, but that too is a bit of tricky work and might mean that your music, streaming video, etc, doesn’t work as you expect either. Instead, turns out that Skype offers all sorts of ways you can customize the per-event notifications, whether it’s when you first connect to Skype, when someone wants to send you a file, when a friend connects, or – what we want – when you receive a message.