Chat in Teams

There is a difference between a chat and a conversation. Chat is a written dialog with a selection of persons that you wished to include. The content of the chat is only visible for you and those you are chatting with. A chat is independent of whether the participants are in a team or not. Conversations work within a team and functions as a reference wall for all the members of the team.

Start a new chat

In the menu selection to the left you will find a button called Chat.

You start a new chat by clicking on New Chat at the top right over the chatlist. To start a new chat all you have to do is add the name of the member(s) you want to have a chat with, and then write your message in the text field.

When a chat is created you will also get the opportunity to send messages automatically, share files, and create a sound or video call with the participants in the chat.

Continue a previous chat

In stead of starting a new chat, you can click on your bookmarked (Pinned) chats, and write a new message, or go one of your ealier chats that you have parttaken in (Recent). These chats are shown in chronologocal order. 

Click on a chat and you will see the history of the selected chat.

You can write a new message in the field Type a new message. The message kan be formatted and you can add documents, images, emoticons etc.

Calendar notices

Calendar notices that you do from Teams or Outlook with a link to a video meeting in Teams is in reality an invitation to a chat. In addition to a video meeting, you are connected to a chat with the possibility to send each other messages and share files.