# Whiteboard on Yahoo IM?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiteboard-on-yahoo-im/301861
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 30, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiteboard-on-yahoo-im/301861 "2005-04-30T15:00:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiteboard-on-yahoo-im/301861/1 "2005-04-30T15:00:40Z")
I know there used to be a whiteboard function on Yahoo IM, because I remember using it – at least a year and a half ago. I was just chatting with a friend and it would have been a hell of a lot easier to explain what I was trying to say if I could have sketched it – but I couldn’t figure out how to turn on the whiteboard.
Does Yahoo still have that function? And how do you turn it on?
TIA.
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiteboard-on-yahoo-im/301861/2 "2005-04-30T15:31:50Z")
Yes—it’s an IMVironment called “Doodle”, IIRC. It’s in one of those categories sorry I don’t know offhand.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiteboard-on-yahoo-im/301861/3 "2005-04-30T15:42:37Z")
Bingo! Thanks!
I’d checked IM environments, but didn’t go down far enough: it’s See All Environments/Yahoo Tools/Doodle.
Murky buckets!