To find out the correct keyboard shortcuts
- Press ALT and the bar will come up.
- Press the underlined letter e.g. ‘f’ is File,‘t’ is Tools
- And then look on the menu to see what shortcut you want.

- On one of the letters of the option you want, there will be an underlined letter

For example:

to change the display picture
-Alt
-t
-y

‘t’ because that is the underlined letter for Tools
‘y’ because that is  the underlined letter for Change My Display Picture

Before you carry on reading, please note that this version is only for the ENGLISH version of msn messenger 7. Other languages may be different. If they are you will have to find them your self using the above method.

[note:

- ‘,’ (comma) means you press it after the command before

- ‘;’ (semi-colon) the commands after this symbol are options within that command (the parts in italic and tabbed) e.g. for changing status to online press ALT,f,m,o]

Shortcuts 

~ Main Contact List Window ~

[File…]

ALT,f and

i – sign in

n – sign out

m – change status;
          o – online
          b – busy
          e – be right back
          a – away
          p – on the phone
          l – out to lunch
          f – appear offline

          s – personalised status [ MSG Plus! ]

g – go to;
          h – msn homepage
          b – inbox

          i – my offline messages 
          m – msn today

f – send a file or photo

o – open received files

h – message history

c – close

[Contacts…]

ALT,c and

a – add contact

s – search for a contact;

          a – advanced search

          s – search by interest

b – go to my address book

d – view display pictures;

          l – Large

          s – Small

          n – None

m – manage contacts;

          d – delete a contact

          v – view profile

          p – properties

          c – view contacts by;

                    d – display name

                    e – email address

g – manage groups;

          n – create a new group

          d – delete a group

          r – rename a group

c – sort contacts by;

          g – groups

          o – online / offline status

          m – group mobile contacts together

          f – group offline contacts together

l – save contact list

p – import contact list from file

[Actions…]

ALT,a and

s – send an instant message

o – send other;

          e – email

          m – mobile

          k – wink

          f – file or photo

a – audio/video;

          a – audio conversation

          s – webcam

c – start an activity

g – play a game

m – get more from messenger;

          e – emoticons

          b – backgrounds

          t – theme packs

[Tools…]

ALT,t and

n – always on top

m – my emoticons

u – my backgrounds

y – change my display picture

k – my winks

l – view alerts history

p – publish my phone numbers

e – edit my mobile settings

w – audio/video tuning wizard

c – webcam settings

o – options

b – billing information;

          e – emoticons

          b – backgrounds

          t – theme packs

[Help…]

ALT,h and

h – help topics

b – billing support;

          e – emoticons

          b – backgrounds

          t – theme packs

s – service status

p – privacy statement

t – terms of use

c – customer experience improvement program

f – send feedback

a – about msn messenger

[EXTRA  PLUS! SHORTCUTS…]

ALT,p and

o – open log files

e – event log window

l – lock messenger

c, enter – task scheduler

c, c enter – contact list clean-up

s – sound library

w – configuration wizard

p – preferences

h – online help

a – about

~Conversation Window~

[File…]

ALT,f and

s – save

a – save as

f – send a file or photo

o – open received files

h – view message history

c – close

[Edit…]

ALT,e and

u – undo / ctrl + z

t – cut / ctrl + x

c – copy / ctrl + c

p – paste / ctrl + v

d – delete / del

a – select all / ctrl + a

f – change the font

[Actions…]

ALT,a and

i – invite contact

f – send a file or photo

d – send a nudge

w – send a wink

e – send an email

k – share current background

a – audio/video;

          t – start an audio conversation

          s – send my webcam conversation

          m – more;

                    v – view contacts webcam

                    c – start a video conference

[Tools…]

ALT,t and

t – text size;

          g – largest

          l – larger

          m – medium

          s – smaller

          a – smallest

l – show toolbars;

          s – standard

          f – formatting

n – always on top

m – my emoticons

k – my winks

u – my backgrounds

y – change my display picture

i – preview pictures before transfer;

          l – large

          s – small

          n – none

e – show emoticons

w – audio/video tuning wizard

c – webcam settings

[Help…]

ALT,h and

h – help topics

w – welcome to messenger

s – service status

p – privacy statement

t – terms of use

c – customer experience improvement program

f – send feedback

a – about messenger

[EXTRA  PLUS! SHORTCUTS…]

ALT,p and

l – log this chat

p – open this log file

d – disable personalised status

o – override text format

a – auto accept requests

s – insert special tag;

          t – current time

          d – current date

          n – my name

          e – my email

          c – contact name(s)

          o – contact email(s)

          u – custom contact name(s)

          i – current IP

          t – network card IP

          w – winamp song title

          v – software version

          r – plugins version

f, enter – insert format tag;

          o – bold text

          i – italic text

          u – underlined text

          s – strikeout text

          c – text colour / ctrl + k

          b – text background colour

          r – reset format

c – send command;

          c – change status;

                    o – online
                    b – busy
                    e – be right back
                    a – away
                    p – on the phone
                    l – out to lunch
                    f – appear offline

                    s – sign out

          u – built in sounds;

                    h – hello!

                    y – bye!

                    b – be right back

                    s – im stupid

                    o – youre boring!

                    m – are you mad?

                    g – oh my god!

                    k – kiss

                    e – evil laugh

                    i – imperial march

                    c – come on

                    r – right…

                    t – trekkie

                    d – dangerous

                    a – applause

                    w – woow!

                    y – yawn

          o – contact operations;

                    b – block

                    u – unblock

                    d – display profile

                    i – invite

                    p – page

                    h – phone

                    v – voice chat

                    o – video chat

                    s – send instant message

                    e – send email

                    f -  send file

          s – special operations;

                    i – send action message

                    e – send message without emoticons

                    w – send message without analysis

                    l – send message to all

                    p – send ping request

                    b – block group

                    u – unblock group

                    a – check emails

                    h – clear history

                    l – lock messenger

                    c – close chat

                    n – change nickname / /nick

                    d – change display picture

                    r – run program

          m – more…

u – plug-ins;

          s – Stuffplug;         

                    o – options

                    c, enter – change language

                    t – talker

                    i, enter – ignore

                    u – unignore

                    i, i enter – ignore list

                    c, c enter – change my auto talker

                    c, c, c enter – change my chat-only name

                    c, c, c, c enter – CE/DP stealer

                    c, c, c, c, c enter – configure

f – find text

q – send a quote

The universal command for shortcuts is ‘ / ’