Yahoo Messenger Cheat Sheet: Advanced IM Commands

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon December 7, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Instant messaging

Quick listing of Yahoo IM command codes.

    /help calls up the help file
    /cls clears the screen
    /save saves the current chat session transcript
    /leave exits current room
    /join roomname joins roomname
    /goto username joins the chat room that username is currently in
    /follow username user will follows username whenever the user changes rooms
    /think text posts text in this format “oO(text)”
    /tell username text — allows you to send a text to username with opening a window
    /invite username invites username to the current room
    /webcam starts your webcam
    /version displays the program version
    /version username sends the program version to username
    /time shows the time
    /roll number rolls the number of dice
    /logoff closes the client
    /ignore add username will add username to your ignore list
    /ignore remove username will remove username from your ignore list
    :Text formats the text as an emotion

    Text
    formats the text as bold
    Text
    formats the text as italic
    Text
    formats the text as underline
    Text
    will format the text as the fontface and fontsize specified. Fontsize is in pixels.
    <#RRGGBB>Text
    colors the text in HEX format

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  • Anonymous
    can you use these commands in Windows?
  • risherz
    Yeah, you should be able to use these commands in Windows (the operating system) if that's what you are asking.

    And here are a few other tips...

    Instead of using html tags to make text bold and all that, you can also just press

    Ctrl+b to make text bold
    Ctrl+I to make text italic
    Ctrl+u to make text underlined

    Then just press the same combination again if you want to use the normal text. This will make your typing speed a bit faster :wink:

    Risherz
  • Anonymous
    Where do you type these commands? I tried typing in one in a message window, and it just sent it as a message
  • Anonymous
    do you know how to kick somebody out from a room?
  • Anonymous
    I don't mean to sound dumb, but I was reading this recipe and I couldn't figure out WHERE you're supposed to enter these /commands to make them work. Do they work only in chat? That's my guess.

    Anyway, I came upon this site by doing a web search for "remove your name from Yahoo Messenger ignore list." Someone is stalking me like this. I keep putting his name in my ignore list and somehow, he keeps taking it out. I know this kind of stuff can happen because I have one of the spy programs that allow me to see people when they're signed in invisible.

    But I can't find the software that this guy is using. And he is scaring me. I'm on the verge of deleting my screen name, even though I have a whole huge cache of emails and chats I do not want to lose. I'm getting desperate.

    Does anyone here know the software of which I speak? And if so, do you know how to keep it from working? How can I defeat software that defeats my ignore list?

    help!!!!
  • MickeyMouse
    I've seen software like this before. Never used it for evil purposes before.

    You can try reporting him to yahoo messenger abuse:
    http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/aa/mesg/cgi_abuse

    Although honestly, the guy will probably just create another log in and start all over again.

    You don't have to lose your yahoo emails. Just stop using that account for IM. Find out if you friends use another IM service (msn, aol, etc) and switch to it... or just create another yahoo IM account.

    Keep us posted. Sorry you are having such problems.
  • Anonymous
    hey guys will u plz tell me how to get a software for yahoo messenger invisible ppl catcher(ie the software which tells that the follpwing ppl are in invisible mode ) and also the software which opposes it(ie the software being talked about in the above two posts)
  • Anonymous
    i don't know where to enter these codes please tell me please where to enter them and how to enter ???
  • Anonymous
    hi is anybody tell me how to kick out anyone from the chat room and how to removing the ignore on ourself if any one ignore u plz tell i m thankful of him/ her.
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  • CTF
    These commands suck! They don't work!
  • Reza
    Thanks. It works for me :)
  • Udesh
    please tell me how to use this command? where i type that?

    thanks
  • clickdevacanta
    where exactly do we use them?
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