Post and Receive Messages

Quick reference

• 00:03 Teams at its core is a communications application.
• 00:08 So it makes sense that one of the most used
• 00:12 functionalities is posting and receiving messages.
• 00:17 And most of us have been doing this for years.
• 00:19 From all the way back in the days of AOL, if you're as old as me then you'll
• 00:24 remember that, all the way through to things like Skype and Slack.
• 00:29 And messaging works in exactly the same way as all of these other applications, so
• 00:34 I don't think you're going to find this too challenging.
• 00:37 Now if we select a channel, and, again,
• 00:40 we're going to use Northwind Traders as an example, let's click on the Sales channel.
• 00:47 Now notice that within each channel we have three different tabs at the top,
• 00:52 Posts, Files, and Wiki.
• 00:54 And by default you're going to land on the Posts tab.
• 00:58 And if you cast your eyes down to the bottom,
• 01:01 notice that we have a New conversation button.
• 01:05 So this is where you come to chat with your other channel members.
• 01:10 And everything you post and type in here can be seen by all of the channel members,
• 01:15 so just bear that in mind when you're sending messages.
• 01:20 If you want to chat privately with a member of your team or somebody else,
• 01:24 we do that in a completely different area.
• 01:26 This is really for group conversations within a channel.
• 01:30 So I'm going to click the New conversation button.
• 01:34 And you'll notice that I now get a little area at the bottom where I can type in
• 01:38 whatever it is that I want to say.
• 01:40 And underneath the area where we type,
• 01:43 we have some icons which allow us to do things like attach files and
• 01:47 add some personality to our messages with gifs, emojis, stickers, things like that.
• 01:54 Now we're not going to spend too long here,
• 01:56 because I think most people understand at this stage how messaging systems work,
• 02:01 but let's add a quick message.
• 02:03 Hi everyone, welcome to the new channel.
• 02:06 If I want to send this message through, I can either hit Return or
• 02:10 click on that little paper plane icon to the right-hand side.
• 02:14 Now I'm just going to hit Return, and
• 02:16 it sends that message through to the channel, and all team members can see it.
• 02:22 Now all of these icons that you can see underneath my message,
• 02:25 we're going to go through those in various different lessons throughout this course.
• 02:30 So for now just understand how you can post messages and
• 02:33 interact with other channel members.
• 02:36 When you receive a reply to a message,
• 02:38 like I received a reply from Ben just here, you're going to see that underneath.
• 02:43 Teams utilizes threaded conversations.
• 02:46 And you're also going to get a notification in your activity log.
• 02:50 Now my activity log did show a number one here when that message came in, but
• 02:55 because I was clicking around in between, it's disappeared.
• 02:59 But if we jump into here you can see that I can see this
• 03:03 conversation in my feed as well.
• 03:06 If I want to reply to Ben, I can simply click the Reply button
• 03:11 underneath his message, and then hit Enter to send that through.
• 03:16 So messaging back and forth, very straightforward,
• 03:19 we're not reinventing the wheel here.
• 03:22 If you've used one messaging application, you've pretty much used them all.
• 03:26 Now obviously there are a lot of options and
• 03:28 icons underneath that we haven't discussed yet, but
• 03:32 we are going to talk about those as we progress through this section.

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