Thursday, October 17

How to erase or conceal chats in Microsoft Teams

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

Microsoft Teams is an excellent office platform for keeping the sociability strong. Including collective messaging, video conferencing, and file-sharing tools, it’s your one-stop-shop for in-office, hybrid and at-home employees alike. Anybody with a long history of utilizing Microsoft Teams will inform you how obstructed up your message stockpile can get. Erasing and concealing these exchanges is fairly simple to do, and we’ve put together this guide to assist.

These repairs can be utilized on the desktop app and on the internet variation of Teams. By the end of our walkthrough, you’ll be pitching Teams messages into oblivion and concealing unimportant chats at warp speed!

Erasing private chats in Microsoft Teams

While there’s no other way to erase a whole discussion which contains numerous messages, you can erase private chats within that discussion thread.

Action 1: Open a talk and pick a message by right-clicking on it. You can likewise open the very same menu by picking the More choices button– revealed as 3 dots surrounding to the emoji responses– after hovering over a specific talk.

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Action 2: Select the Erase field.

Your message will now be changed with, “This message has actually been erased,” together with an Undo button, which can be available in useful when you’ve inadvertently struck the incorrect alternative in the drop-down menu.

screenshot / Digital Trends Deleting whole discussions in Microsoft Teams

There is no other way to erase all the messages consisted of within a talk in one go through the talk sidebar, where all your discussions are noted. You can conceal them if you no longer desire or require them in that area.

Action 1: Within the talk area, on the left-hand side of the program, right-click on a discussion thread or choose More choices beside the pop-out talk icon.

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Action 2: Choose the Conceal setting.

screenshot / Digital Trends Deleting Microsoft Teams talks on iPhone

You can likewise erase chats in Microsoft Teams if you utilize the mobile app variation rather than (or along with) the desktop program.

Action 1: Open the talk thread where you’ll be erasing messages from.

Action 2: Select the talk you wish to erase by pushing and hanging on the message itself. This will open the settings alternatives you can pick from.

Action 3: Choose the Erase message field, and after that pick the Erase button.

screenshot / Digital Trends Hiding talks in Microsoft Teams

Possibly your Teams feed has plenty of old chats that have not had any brand-new activity in months. You’re about to sign up with a Teams conference quickly, and you’re wagering that everybody’s going to begin publishing in the Teams thread once again. Not to stress, since for the time being,

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