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Starting instant meetings and calls

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If you need a quick meeting, you can:

  • Start an instant meeting. When you start an instant meeting, you invite one or more contacts before the meeting starts. You can also invite others to join after the meeting starts.

  • Call a contact. You can call contacts from the chat pane, or from your contacts list. The call starts when the contact answers. Again, you can invite others to join the call.

  • Call a chat room. You can call one or more of the members in a chat room. You can also call everyone in the chat room.

  • Use your call history to call a contact or chat room again.

Instant meetings and calls take place in the Meetings Window. When you start an instant meeting or call, you become the host, and you can use additional meeting controls. For more information about those controls, see Hosting meetings.

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