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Share Your Location in Skype Message with Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello, and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to share your location in a message when using the Skype application on a Microsoft Lumia 535.

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Steps

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To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on the right-hand side of the phone
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Once the phone is activated, we'll see the lock screen
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Swipe the lock screen up, and this will take us to the home screen.

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On the home screen, we need to find the Skype tile
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It has a blue tile background, and in the middle there is the Skype logo, which is a white circle with a blue letter "S" inside. If the Skype tile has not been pinned to the home screen, swipe left and find it in the Apps menu.
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Once the Skype tile has been located, wherever it may be, press down on it to enter the application
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Once in the application, we need to find a contact to whom we can send our location. There are two different ways to do this.

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First, we can go to the "recent" section
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It says "recent" at the top in a darker blue text. On this screen, we will find all the people we recently communicated with. We can choose a contact from this screen.
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Alternatively, we can swipe across the screen until we arrive at the "people" section
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Now, it says "people" at the top of the screen in a darker blue text. This screen lists all of our Skype contacts. We can choose a contact from this screen.

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To choose a contact, press down on the name
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This will open up a personal chat with that person.
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To send them our location in a message, we need to press the plus icon at the bottom left corner of the chat window screen
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There is a blue circle with a white plus sign on it. Pressing down on that will bring up a menu of options.

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Tap on the second option from the bottom in white text, which says "share location"
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The icon to the left is an image of a pin like you might see on a map.
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The map program will locate us first
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Then a map will appear with the address of our location at the bottom of the screen
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A blue pointer on the map will show exactly where we are.
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In order to send this in a message, we need to press the icon in the far bottom right-hand corner
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It has a white circle with a blue arrow inside pointing to the right.
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Now, the area of our message is a light blue color, and it contains the map with our location in it
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It has now been sent to our contact.
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This concludes our tutorial on how to share a location in a message when using the Skype application on a Microsoft Lumia 535
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