What you will learn

This course explains everything you need to know about Chat in Teams and why it is more than simple messaging

  • Starting a chat from anywhere in Teams

  • Collaborating in chat

  • Creating group chats

  • Using Loop components

  • And more ...

Course Content

  • 1

    Where to find chat in Teams

    • Where to find chat
  • 2

    Starting a chat message - five methods

    • Method - 1

    • Method - 2

    • Method - 3

    • Starting chat from profiles

    • Send a quick message from profiles
  • 3

    Adding additional people to a conversation

    • Adding people to a conversion
  • 4

    Group Chat

    • Creating a group

    • Add people to a group but no history

    • Add people to group with all the history

    • Add people to group with defined history

    • Find the members of a group

    • Leave a group
  • 5

    Using pop out

    • Method - 2

    • Method - 1
  • 6

    Working with messages

    • Sending a message

    • Formatted messages

    • Marking as important

    • Marking message as urgent

    • Replying to a message

    • Deleting a message

    • Editing a message

    • Sharing a file from One Drive

    • Sharing a file from your PC

    • Collaborating on shared files in chat

    • Finding unread message

    • Finding saved messages

    • The fun stuff
  • 7

    Urgent and Important messages

    • Marking as important

    • Marking message as urgent

    • Receiving an urgent message

    • Urgent message notifications
  • 8

    Loop Components

    • What are loop components

    • Creating a Loop component - example 1 loop component

    • Creating a Loop component - example 1 loop component

    • Other types of loop components

    • Sharing a loop component with others

    • Sind out who has access to the lop component
  • 9

    Sharing files in chat

    • Sharing a file from One Drive

    • Sharing a file from your PC

    • Opening shared files - READ only

    • Changing settings to collaborating on a shared file

    • Which files have you shared

    • Find out who you have shared a file with

    • Where else can you access shared files
  • 10

    Creating shortcuts to messages

    • Create a shortcut to a message by saving

    • Finding saved messages

    • Create a shortcut to a message by pinning

    • Unpin a message
  • 11

    Using search in Chat

    • Finding saved messages

    • Find individuals in chat window

    • Find which groups someone is a member of

    • Find which meetings somone has attended

    • Finding meetings where chat has taken placce

    • Finding unread message
  • 12

    More things you can do in chat

    • Share screen

    • Turn chat to video call

    • Turn chat to phone call
  • 13

    The additional tabs in chat

    • Organisation tab

    • Activity tab

    • Files tab