{"id":5303,"date":"2019-05-30T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2019-05-30T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:52:56","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-clean-up-your-teams-chat-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5303","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 you can \u201cclean up\u201d your Teams chat history?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My inbox has 7,582 messages in it. This fact doesn\u2019t bother me at all because \u201cUnread: 2\u201d indicates what still needs to be addressed. I mark a message as unread to keep them in my \u201cneeds to be worked on\u201d queue, so seeing thousands of messages in my inbox doesn\u2019t feel like an overwhelming pile of outstanding requests.<\/p>\n

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Some people move<\/em> messages from their inbox \u2013 either deleting the message or sorting it into an appropriate folder \u2013 and, for them, the item count<\/em> is their \u201cneeds to be worked on\u201d list. My mom is one of those people \u2013 she gets a little stressed out just seeing<\/em> the pages (and pages, and pages!) of messages in my inbox.<\/p>\n

I mention this because it never bothered me that the Teams chat list is cluttered with the last 30 days of private chats, chats from within meetings, Planner notifications. Nothing is in bold, there\u2019s no activity indicator on the Chat tile \u2026 to me, that says \u201cyou\u2019re all done here\u201d.<\/p>\n

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But that’s not true for everyone. Some people see the pages of conversation history and subconsciously see a bunch of messages they still need to address. Or they see clutter — “when you’re done with it, put it away” and this isn’t away! If you don\u2019t like to have dozens of finished conversations hanging out for a month, you can hide them. Hiding conversations does NOT delete the messages \u2013 if you receive a new message from the individual or address a new message to them, your previous chat history will still be there. Hidden chat messages are still displayed when you search for information. But hiding chats reduces the number of \u201crecent\u201d conversations displayed in Teams.<\/p>\n

To hide a conversation, move your mouse over a listing and click the ellipsis which appears.<\/p>\n

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Select \u201cHide\u201d from the menu.<\/p>\n

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The hidden chat record will no longer be listed in your recent conversation history. Repeat as needed with the rest of your chat history.<\/p>\n

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If the person sends you a new message, you will see an activity indicator on the \u201cChat\u201d tile and the conversation will pop back into your recent conversation listing. If you address a new chat message to the person, the conversation will pop back into your recent conversation listing. You can hide the conversation again when you\u2019ve finished the discussion.<\/p>\n

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My inbox has 7,582 messages in it. This fact doesn\u2019t bother me at all because \u201cUnread: 2\u201d indicates what still needs to be addressed. I mark a message as unread to keep them in my \u201cneeds to be worked on\u201d queue, so seeing thousands of messages in my inbox doesn\u2019t feel like an overwhelming pile …<\/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-5303","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\/5303","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=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}