Start Chats and Calls

With chat, you can have private one-on-one or group conversations that are not in the public team channel. And with calls, you can make calls or check your history.

View a chat

Select Chat and select a one-on-one or group chat from the chat list.

Start a chat

Select New chat

Type the name of the person or people you want to contact.

Select the down arrow to add a name to your chat group.

Search in a chat

Open the chat you wish to search within and press Ctrl + F enter your search term and press Enter. The search results will be displayed from within the chat.

Choose any one of the available results and Teams will scroll to the location of that message.

Make video and audio calls from a chat

Select Video call or Audio call  to call someone directly from a chat.

Use Recent and Pinned

On the left side of the app, you’ll see your Recent conversations as well as your Pinned chats.

Hover over a conversation, select the three dots, and then select Pinto keep your chat in your Pinned list.

Make calls and view history

Select Calls > History to see your call history.

If you don’t have Calls, select Activity to see any missed calls