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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+  type="topic"
+  id="set-custom-status">
+  
+  <info>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#talk"/>
+	<link type="seealso" xref="change-status"/>
+    <desc>
+      Setting a custom status.
+    </desc>
+    <revision version="1.0" date="2009-06-30" status="draft"/>
+    
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
+      <email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
+    </credit>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2009</year>
+      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
+    </copyright>
+    
+    <license>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</license>
+    
+    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Set a custom status</title>
+      <p>
+	Sometimes you may want to set a custom status, for example to let people know that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time.  
+	  </p>
+	  
+    <steps>
+    <item>
+      <p>
+	Click on the drop-down list at the top of the main window of
+	<app>Empathy</app>.
+      </p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>
+	Enter your custom status message into the "Add New Preset" box. 
+      </p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>
+    Select a generic status type from the drop-down menu.
+      </p>
+    </item>	
+	<item>
+      <p>
+    Click on the +Add button to add the custom status to 
+	your list of possible status indicators.
+      </p>
+    </item>
+	<item>
+      <p>
+    Click "Close" and then select your newly-created status from 
+	the drop-down menu at the top of the application.
+      </p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+</page>