Chat in an Online Comic Strip
What’s more fun than an online chat in real time? Comic Chat, where your online conversations appear as an interactive comic strip!
Online chats normally occur in text-based "chat rooms," or conversation areas. But with Comic Chat, as you and other chat participants type text, a comic strip unfolds showing the conversation as comic characters with word balloons.
Installing Comic Chat
To install Comic Chat, click this icon:
Setting Up Comic Chat
After you install Comic Chat, you need to set it up on your computer.
To configure Comic Chat:
1 Click the Start button, point to Programs, click the Microsoft Comic Chat folder, and then click Microsoft Comic Chat.
2 Follow the instructions on your screen.
3 To start it after you’ve set it up, click the Start button, click Microsoft Comic Chat, and then click Microsoft Comic Chat.
Using Comic Chat
After a chat begins, you can scroll through the "starring" pane to see the viewing pane, where the conversation takes place and the chat history appears as a comic strip. For more information about using Comic Chat, see its online Help, or read the Comic Chat section in Chapter 4 in the Online Guide.
To get updates of Comic Chat, check out www.microsoft.com/ie
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