{"id":4602,"date":"2019-02-13T11:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:53:23","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-add-a-subject-to-your-channel-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 you can add a subject to your Channel conversations?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be time consuming to scan through channel conversation and find posts that are really<\/em> relevant to you \u2013 unlike e-mails that have conveniently scan-able subjects, Teams can seem like a deluge of threads, and you\u2019ve got to read through each one to see if it\u2019s something important to you or not.<\/p>\n

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To some extent, breaking topics out into different channels and Teams<\/a> helps, but few are deeply involved in every single<\/em> aspect of a discussion. And personnel matters discussed in a group\u2019s Teams space often only impact some<\/em> people \u2013 announcements about the Education Assistance policy, the deadline for the smoking cessation program, or weather information for a specific office may be really important to you or they may be something you could have ignored if you hadn\u2019t needed to read the first sentence or two before disqualifying yourself.<\/p>\n

But Teams threads do<\/em> have subjects \u2013 it\u2019s just really<\/em> easy to start a thread without one (unlike e-mail where it\u2019s glaringly obvious that your subject is missing). To add a subject to your thread, either hit Ctrl-Shift-x or click the \u2018Format\u2019 button to expand the rich text editor.<\/p>\n

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Now there\u2019s a thread subject \u2013 type a quick summary just like you would have in an e-mail message and type your thread content in the \u2018Start a new conversation \u2026\u2019 section.<\/p>\n

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When you post your message, your subject will appear in larger, bolded text. This allows channel members to quickly scan through threads and decide if they need to read them or not.<\/p>\n

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Subjects are even highlighted in search results \u2013 making it easier to find your thread in searches (and scanning through a channel when not <\/em>using search).<\/p>\n

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It can be time consuming to scan through channel conversation and find posts that are really relevant to you \u2013 unlike e-mails that have conveniently scan-able subjects, Teams can seem like a deluge of threads, and you\u2019ve got to read through each one to see if it\u2019s something important to you or not. To some …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[675,691,729,666,686],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}