Saving Chats and Conversations in Microsoft Teams | 5 TIPS

Posted on: 03/28/2022

Saving chats and channel conversations in Microsoft Teams helps you reference old discussions, go back to questions or things you want to remember from your conversations with your colleagues. In this video, I provide 5 tips that will help you find your way around the Saved messages functionality in Teams.

We look at saving a chat message, saving a conversation from a Team channel, see where the saved chats and conversations go - it's not immediately obvious as Teams doesn't provide a visual cue when you save a chat message. We see where are all your Saved messages, all in one place.

I also go over how to unsave a chat or conversation and finally, how to reply to an old chat message, so that your colleagues know what you're talking about if you reply to an older message.

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Video Chapters

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Save chats
01:16 Save channel conversation
01:54 Retrieve saved chats and conversations
02:24 Unsave chats and conversations
02:36 Reply to older chats
03:29 Closing remarks

Save Chats and Channel Conservations

To save a chat or channel conversation, click More Options - the three dots - and select Save this message.

View Saved Chats or Channel Conversations

To see your saved items, click your profile picture or initials in the top right and select Saved. After clicking Saved, your messages will appear on the left-hand side of the screen. Clicking a message will display that message.

View Saved Messages in Teams — **View Saved Messages**

Unsave a message

To unsave a message, click the bookmark icon by the message.

Chris Menard

Chris Menard is a Microsoft Trainer (MCT) and works as a full-time Trainer at BakerHostetler - one of the largest law firms in the US. Chris runs a YouTube channel with 900+ technology videos that cover various tools such as Excel, Word, Zoom, Teams, Gmail, Copilot, Google Calendar, and Outlook. To date, the channel has helped over 20 million viewers. Menard also does 2 to 3 public speaking events yearly, presenting at the Administrative Professional Conference (APC), the EA Ignite Conference, the University of Georgia, and CPA conferences. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://chrismenardtraining.com/linkedin or watch his videos on YouTube at https://chrismenardtraining.com/youtube.