Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about the Mac since MacOS 9 was the rage.

Not as easy as it could be, but… functional! I’ll just use a favorite app of mine, Notes, and open up a new, blank note.Ī simple Edit > Paste and here’s what I see: MS Word, Pages, Stickies, an email message, lots of choices. Now, open up the app you want to have receive these messages. If it’s working properly, you’ll see this flash on screen for a few seconds: Yes, you can forward a dialog to someone else on Skype. There is not, as far as I can tell, however, a “select all” sort of feature, so if you have dozens of comments, it’s going to inevitably be a bit tedious.Īll selected? Now, look at the very bottom because three new options have appeared: Copy, Forward and Remove.

You can scroll upwards and select as many as you desire. You can see here that I’ve selected each text message on screen. Then, just like in iMessage on your Mac system or iPhone, you’ll see a small circle adjacent to each and every text message in the conversation: ” link appears and a click reveals a menu of options:Īs highlighted, you’ll want to choose “ Select Messages” here in the Skype app.To do that, move your cursor to the immediate right of any message. The question, of course, is how do I save this back and forth text conversation? It’s not just text messaging, you can see that it’s a transcript of all interaction: Notice at 12:35 it records a 2 minute, 16 second call between us too. I’m using the Mac Skype app, I believe he’s on Windows (tho it doesn’t really matter for this particular task): Let me show you what I mean…įirst off, here’s a chat I had with a colleague who was testing out Skype on his computer. However, there’s a pretty nifty way you can select messages and then copy and paste that dialog into another app. Unfortunately, no, there’s no way to save your dialog or export it as a PDF, rich text file or similar. It’s really designed as a video + audio conference system, supporting two or more people connected simultaneously, but turns out that Skype also has a perfectly functional text messaging feature too, one quite similar to text messaging through a smartphone using SMS. In the business world, however, Skype still is the go-to for a quick conversation with a colleague across the globe – or around the corner. Skype has always been in its own world, slogging through the mire while other video chat and conferencing systems like Google Hangouts, Zoom and Apple FaceTime have risen to compete.

How to skype on imac