Hi Cara, what happened for me, is, I pressed enter on the show contacts menu, and only found one option, which was all, so I exited the contacts menu, and found the manage groups sub menu, and there, I found things like on line, etcetera, and it is worth noting that when I start skype now, I have two trees in the table, the all tree, and the on line tree, and I can expand or collapse either tree with the right and left arrows, and now, the item in the menu that use to say show contact groups, says hide contact groups, so should I have pressed enter on the show contacts groups menu? Thanks, just a misunderstanding on my part. On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:35:27 -0800, Cara Quinn wrote: Hey All, let me clarify right up front, that at the moment, as far as I can tell, grouping doesn't show busy / away status without creating a new group. YOu can have groups to show you who is online or off, as well as those that might be waiting for your contact details and such. I'm currently researching how to add criteria to a group you create, as I'm sure this is possible to do. This may allow one to show busy / away status and such. Now whether it's actually accessible with VO at this point, is another story. <smile> Okay, so here goes. ? Go to your Contacts menu and click on 'Show contact Groups.' ? Now, in the same menu, you should have a new option available to you, which is 'Manage contact Groups.' ? In this new option, you should find two choices, Create new Group and Preset Groups - choose the later ? Now simply check the groups that you'd like to show up in your list. This should be all you need to do to get the contacts view showing you who is online and such. Hope this helps and will post more as I know more, K?? Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > Marty > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >