Chat in Teams

Chat is a conversation with a selected group of people, and the content is only visible to you and those you are chatting with. A chat is not linked to a team, so you can chat with anyone, whether they are in the same team as you or in another one.

Conversations in the form of posts, however, function within a team and are visible to all team members. You can read more about this in the guide for posts.

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

Instead 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 can 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.