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Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams

You're reading from   Reimagine Remote Working with Microsoft Teams A practical guide to increasing your productivity and enhancing collaboration in the remote world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814164
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashok Madhvarayan Ashok Madhvarayan
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Sriram Rajamanickam Sriram Rajamanickam
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Harsharanjeet Kaur Harsharanjeet Kaur
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Managing Your Meetings, Projects, and Workforce
2. Chapter 1: Managing Meetings in Teams FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Management in Teams 4. Chapter 3: Workforce Management in Teams 5. Section 2 – Collaboration, Events, and Communication
6. Chapter 4: Managing Collaboration in Teams 7. Chapter 5: Managing Communication in Teams 8. Chapter 6: Organize Virtual Events 9. Section 3 – All about Security, Client Automation, Teams Etiquette, and Tips and Tricks
10. Chapter 7: User and Data Security 11. Chapter 7: Teams Etiquette and Best Practices 12. Chapter 9: End User Automation 13. Chapter 10: Productivity Tips and Tricks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Group chats in Teams

Microsoft Teams group chats allow you to create a personalized group and add multiple members at once for effective collaboration. As you are already aware, you can have a channel created with members who are part of a particular project; however, it gives some comfort to users to create a group chat and add members of their choice for a quick chat, to make an audio or video call, or to share files. It is sometimes required to have a small group of members in one place to discuss ideas and group chats can be used as an option for this.

Creating a group chat

Please follow these steps to create a group chat for collaboration:

  1. Select Chat from the menu on the left navigation bar on the Teams client or the web and start a new conversation.

    Figure 5.1 – Starting a new chat conversation

  2. Start searching for users by typing in their names; Teams should help you to pick people when you start typing the first letter of the user.

    Figure 5.2 –...

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