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Use the search tool to find specific messages or files

Use the search tool to find specific messages or files

From the course: Microsoft Teams Essential Training

Use the search tool to find specific messages or files

- [Host] If you're looking for a specific old message, the search tool can help you find it. In the top middle of the window, you will find the command box. This is able to do more than searching, but we'll just use the search feature now. I want to find a conversation where I was talking about the masthead graphic. So I'll click on the search field and type in the word masthead, and then you can choose whether you want it to only search through chats or search in Teams and channels, or you can just have it search through all messages. So I'll choose that and I get two results. One of these is from a message in a channel and one of them is from a private chat. Now, you could click on one of them to go to that message, or you could click the reply button here to reply to that message directly. But this is actually searching through more than just messages. It's also a good way to search for specific people or files. So…

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