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+++ b/help/C/set-custom-status.page
@@ -1,61 +1,148 @@
 <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
   type="topic"
   id="set-custom-status">
-  
+
   <info>
     <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
     <link type="seealso" xref="change-status"/>
          <link type="seealso" xref="status-icons"/>
     <desc>
-      Setting a custom status.
+      Add, edit or delete personal messages for your status.
     </desc>
     <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-30" status="draft"/>
-    
+    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
     <credit type="author">
       <name>Jim Campbell</name>
       <email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
     </credit>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
+      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
+    </credit>
+    <license>
+      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+    </license>    
+<!--
     <copyright>
       <year>2009</year>
       <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
     </copyright>
-    
     <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+-->
   </info>
 
-  <title>Set a custom status</title>
+  <title>Set a custom message</title>
+
+  <p>
+    Sometimes you may want to set a custom message for your status, for example to let
+    people know that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    It is possible to set a custom message based on the different statuses available.
+  </p>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item>
       <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>
+        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
+        the top.
+      </p>
+    </item>
     <item>
       <p>
-       Click on the drop-down list at the top of the main window of
-       <app>Empathy</app>.
+        Select the status you want to add a custom message to. You have to select the one
+        identified with the label <gui>Custom Message</gui>.
       </p>
     </item>
     <item>
       <p>
-       Enter your custom status message into the "Add New Preset" box. 
+        Enter your custom message in the text box at the top of the window, and
+        press <key>Enter</key> to set the message.
       </p>
     </item>
     <item>
       <p>
-    Select a generic status type from the drop-down menu.
+        If you want to set the custom message as a favorite, saving it in order to use it
+        again, click on the little heart on the right of the text box where you wrote your
+        custom message.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        If you do not do it, the custom message will not be available the next time you
+        use <app>Empathy</app>. It will be saved only for the current session.
+      </p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+
+  <section id="edit-custom">
+
+  <title>Edit and remove a custom message</title>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item>
+     <p>
+        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
+        the top.
       </p>
-    </item>    
-       <item>
+    </item>
+    <item>
       <p>
-    Click on the +Add button to add the custom status to 
-       your list of possible status indicators.
+        Select <gui>Edit Custom Message</gui>.
       </p>
     </item>
-       <item>
+         <item>
+           <list>
+             <item>
+               <p>
+                 To edit a custom message:
+               </p>
+               <steps>
+                 <item>
+                   <p>
+                     From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message
+                     you want to edit and double-click on it.
+              </p>
+            </item>
+            <item>
+              <p>
+                Type the new custom message and press <key>Enter</key> to modify it.
+              </p>
+            </item>
+          </steps>
+        </item>
+        <item>
+          <p>
+            To remove a custom message:
+          </p>
+          <steps>
+            <item>
+              <p>
+                From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message you want
+                to remove.
+              </p>
+            </item>
+            <item>
+              <p>
+                Click on the <gui>Remove</gui> button.
+              </p>
+            </item>
+          </steps>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </item>
+    <item>
       <p>
-    Click "Close" and then select your newly-created status from 
-       the drop-down menu at the top of the application.
+        When finished, click on <gui>Close</gui>.
       </p>
     </item>
   </steps>
+
+  <note style="tip">
+    <p>
+      When you edit a custom message, it will not be set as the current
+      status message. You will need to select it from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window.
+    </p>
+  </note>
+
+  </section>
+
 </page>