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Originally posted by dedi
so she can have a colored message in the banner on the top of window conversation when she's "busy". how can I get the same function??

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If you mean by banner the personal message. Then you can properly color it like this:

Method 1

Within the Windows Live Messenger Preferences, change your screen name and/or personal message and add the color codes you want. You can type them manually, or use the formatting panel (though, the formatting panel will only work on your total screen name).

Note1: Using the IRC style shortcuts here doesn't work.
Note2: You yourself will not see the colors in your personal message in the user's information bar on top of the contact list. Your contacts will though.






Method 2

Go into a conversation and use the /nick and/or /psm command to color parts of your screen name and/or personal message.

With this you can use IRC Style shortcuts like CTRL+K, CTRL+U, etc. eg:

With IRC Style shortcuts:

/nick Cookie<CTRL+K>46Revised

/psm <CTRL+B>my <CTRL+O><CTRL+K>4colored<CTRL+O> personal<CTRL+K>12message

With manually entering BBCode Style codes:

/nick Cookie[c=46]Revised[/c]

/psm [b]my[/b] [c=4]colored[/c] personal [c=12]message[/c]



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Now there is also a command /nick2.

The difference between /nick and /nick2 is explained in detail here:
"CookieRevised's reply to What is the difference between /nick and /nick2?"

So you can color anything which goes after your nickname because the /nick2 command leaves out the format reset code (<CTRL+O>) at the end of the name. In contrast to /nick which will always put it there. As a result, you can color the "says:" text and the information text tooltip in a conversation if you use the command /nick2.

Note that this will only work when you use IRC Style code formatting, because BBCode style formatting always encapsulates text; they need to have an opening tag and a closing tag... IRC Style codes do not:

/nick2 Cookie<CTRL+K>46Revised