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Contents 1 Starting WengoPhone 2 Checking that Wengo is working properly 3 Presentation of the WengoPhone interface 4 Make your first phone call with your WengoPhone 4.1 Making a phone call from the main window 4.2 Making a phone call from your WengoPhone keyboard 4.3 Making a phone call from the systray icon 5 Managing your contacts 5.1 Adding a contact 5.2 Communicate from your contacts list 6 Multi-IM chat 6.1 Setting up IM accounts 6.2 Starting a chat session 7 To learn more

Starting WengoPhone

Double-click the WengoPhone icon on your desktop.

When you start WengoPhone 2.1 for the first time, you must enter the e-mail ID and password that you chose when you registered on Wengo. By checking the option "open my session automatically", you will no longer have to enter this information when you next log on.

If you do not have a Wengo account: click the link. A form is displayed. Choose your Wengo name, enter your password and e-mail address and accept the general terms and conditions before validating the creation of your Wengo account.

If you have forgotten your password, click "You have forgotten your password."

Checking that Wengo is working properly

You can check whether you have the right configuration by using the icons in the lower right-hand corner of the main window of your WengoPhone 2.0.

In case it is not working properly :

• the icon is checked with a red cross : you are not connected to the Internet

• the icon is checked with a red cross : you are not registered properly to the service

• the icon is checked with a red cross : your sound card is not working, sound on your PC is not available.

Presentation of the WengoPhone interface

Make your first phone call with your WengoPhone

Making a phone call from the main window

The text field of the call bar on the lower part of the main window is for making phone calls:

- directly to other Wengo users by entering their Wengo name or phone number,

- a landline or cell phone number all over the world (depending on your subscription or available call credit) by entering it in this space…

… and then pressing on the call button.

The software automatically opens the call tab and the call is dialed.

The software stores calls made during the same session in the dropdown list of the call bar. You can therefore call a number by selecting a number stored in this list.

Making a phone call from your WengoPhone keyboard

Click “dialpad” tab in the main window of your WengoPhone 2.1 and dial your correspondent’s number. The software automatically opens the call tab and the call is dialed.

Making a phone call from the systray icon

You can also call by right clicking the icon in the systray.

Use the menu that appears when you click "Call” to choose:

• Place Call to open the dialpad

• Call SIP to call one of your contacts

• Call Mobile to call a cell phone line saved in your directory

• Call landline to call a regular phone line saved in your directory

Managing your contacts

Adding a contact

To add a contact to your list, click "Contacts" in your menu bar or on the first icon of your tool bar. A window will open where you can add a contact and you can enter all the information that you wish to add to the contact.

You can assign your contact to a group to make your list easy to manage. To create a group, simply enter its name in the box of the dropdown menu of contact groups: "family" for example.

The groups that you have created are then stored in memory and you can access them in the dropdown menu.

If your contact has a Wengo nickname, this nickname shall be entered in the "Wengo account or other network account" box. Other instant messaging network contacts shall be entered in this box too.

• select the network of your contact from the dropdown menu,

• enter its nickname or its email address : if it is a Wengo or Yahoo contact enter its nickname, if it's a msn contact, enter its email address,

• then click on "add".

You can also add your contact's different phone numbers to its card. Its Wengo phone number is represented by the green-with-a-white-phone icon.

Communicate from your contacts list

To phone, chat, send an SMS message, etc., simply select the person you want to contact, right-click and then choose the action you want from the menu:

• Call: The types of telephone that you have saved in the contact’s sheet are proposed

• Start a chat session

• Send an SMS message

• Send a file

When you have selected a contact, you can also double-click to:

• start a Wengo call or a chat

• start a call to a landline or cell phone if the contact is not online or does not have a Wengo account

Multi-IM chat

With the WengoPhone 2.1 you can stay in touch with your friends and family regardless of the instant messaging network that they use (MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, Google Talk) once you also have an account on these messaging networks.

Setting up IM accounts

To add an instant messaging account:

• Click you nickname on the profile bar

• Click "Add an IM account", a dropdown menu is displayed, select the type of account you want (MSN for example)

• A new window is displayed.

• Enter your User ID and password then click "Save"

Your account is displayed in the list of instant messaging accounts.

After you have saved your IM account User ID, WengoPhone will automatically connect to the network and retrieve your list of contacts. You can start your chat session.

From the profile bar you can also set different presence status for each account and set a custom nickname.

Starting a chat session

To start a chat session with a contact, simply right-click on the contact in your list of contacts and then click "Start a chat session".

The discussion window opens and you can write your message.

To learn more

To learn more about all WengoPhone 2.1 functionalities, read the user guide.