# Sidebar: Transcript

The Transcript provides a textual log of hand information. It shows what actions have taken place in the hand, what cards were flopped, and records a textual description of all the winning hands. The Transcript is useful to refer to if the action had gone by too quickly and you'd like to see exactly what has gone on before.

In online mode, the Transcript also shows all player chat, and is the only place where you can see chat from observers who are not seated at the table.

You can turn on and off certain classes of transcript messages by right clicking anywhere in the main transcript area. This brings up a menu that allows you to toggle the display of: player actions, hand events, hand summaries, and player chat. Note that the toggles apply to future transcript messages, and do not filter the text that is currently displayed.

### Chatting

In online mode there is a text field underneath the Transcript. Click there, type your message, and press Enter to send it to the other players. As an alternative to clicking in the text entry field you can press Tab (or any other chosen key that you set using the Options > Edit Hot Keys... menu item) and then begin to type your message.