How To Pin, Hide, and Filter Chats in The Microsoft Teams
How To Pin, Hide, and Filter Chats in The Microsoft Teams
It is easy to lose those individual Microsoft Teams chats which is also known as Direct Messages in the long list of your conversations. Here is how tou can get control of your chats by pining, hiding, and filtering your messages in Teams.
As there is no way for you to group chats like Slack, the key elements that is used to organize Microsoft Teams are the ability to hide a chat (so it will just disappear from the list), pin a chat (so that the important chats will always be at the top), and to filter the list (so that you can easily find the chats that you want).
Getting Started
1. If you are going to organize your chats, hiding the ones you do not need to see is a very good place to start. To hide a chat in your Microsoft Teams, tap on the three-dot menu icon that is next to it and choose “Hide” from the context menu.
2. After clicking on the "Hide" menu option. This will automatically remove the Chat from your history. When you are starting a chat with that person again, it will all reappear on the list. If you have hidden a meeting chat, simply go to the meeting on your calendar and then you can access the chat from there.
3. Once you have hidden the chats that you do not want to see, you can then pin the most important conversations and it will go to the top of the Chat panel. Tap the three-dot icon next to a chat and select “Pin” from the context menu.
4. Choosing the "Pin" menu option. This will add the direct message to a new “Pinned” section at the top of your Chat list.
5. A pinned chat: The Chats that you have pinned will always stay in the Pinned section so as for you to easily find it. If you have more than one chat that you pinned, you can drag and drop the chats to help you change the order within the Pinned section, which is something that is not possible for you to do in the main chat list.
6. If you want to unpin a chat once it is no longer a priority, tap on its corresponding three-dot menu icon and choose “Unpin” from the context menu.
7. When you have selected The "Unpin" menu option, This will drop the chat back into the main chat list. Once you have hidden the irrelevant chats and you have pinned the important ones, you can still be left with some long list. To find your conversations more efficiently than for you to start scrolling, you need to make use of the built-in filters.
8. At the top of the Chat panel you will see a Filter button, which is represented by the three horizontal lines. Using the filter buton in the Chat panel, When you tap on this, the filter options become available to you. You can either filter by name or by chat type. To filter by name, start by typing in the “Filter by Name” textbox.
9. Clicking on The "Filter by name" textbox, this will bring back any chats or any meeting names that match with your filter criteria.
10. To filter by the type, just tap on the three-dot menu icon and select from “Unread,” “Meetings,” or “Muted.”
11. Choosing the "Filter by type" menu options will bring back all chats, including the meeting chats, chats that you have not yet read at all, or chats that you have previously muted to prevent notifications.
When you are done filtering, tap on the “X” to close the filter option. Between the hiding, the pinning, and filtering, you can get a bit of control over your chats and you can easily find them.
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