Google Talk keyboard shortcuts tips

CTRL + Mousewheel up/down: Change the font size in a conversation window.

CTRL + E: Center text

CTRL + R: Right justify text

CTRL + L or CTRL+J: Left justify text

CTRL + 1 (keypad): Change lineheight (single)

CTRL + 2 (keypad): Change lineheight (1,5)

CTRL + 5 (keypad): Change lineheight (double)

F9: Open Gmail to send an email to your friend

F11: Start a call with your friend

F12: Stop the current call

ESC: Close the current window

ALT + ESC: Minimize the current window

CTRL + SHIFT + L: Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbersTAB: Switch between multiple chat windows

CTRL + I: Same as TAB

SHIFT + TAB: Same as TAB but in reverse order

CTRL + TAB: Same as SHIFT + TAB

Conversation Text

1. Certain smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will be shown in blue.
:-| :-O :-x :-P :-D ;-) :-( :-) B-) :'( :| :O :x :P :D :) :( :)

2. To write text in bold, put it between * asteriks*

3. To write text in italic, put it between _underscores_

Conversation Window

1. Drag a conversation window on top of another and they will dock together.

2. Drag a conversation window next to another and they will “join” together.

3. Click on your contacts name at the top and it will hide the conversation.

4. Holding Shift + Enter will create a line break.

Nickname & Status Message

To change your nickname you need to go to you account properties in your Gmail account and change the name there. As a result all of your emails will have the new name as well; there is no way to separate the two. You can also use the Quick nickname changer tool in the downloads section. You can add a website in your away message, it will be clickable in conversation windows. Your custom message acts as a personal message as well as an “Away” tag.

Contacts

You don’t need to say “Yes” or “No” when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).

If you want to block someone, Take the following step.
1) Right click on their name and press "Remove (users name)," then it will give you an option to block.
2) To Unblock, Go to "Settings", choose "Blocked", click on the name you want to unblock, and simply click "Unblock.” They are now re-added to your contact list and unblocked.

Others

Google Talk can dock into the Google Desktop Sidebar. Double-click on the title bar in the Google Talk main window and it docks as a panel into the GDS and slides out when you click the top of the docked panel.

Add conferencebot@gmail.com to your friends. You can now talk in a chat room.