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Use chats for private messages

Use chats for private messages

- [Instructor] The group conversations that happen in Team channels are visible to all members of that team. But to send a private message to specific people, you can use the chat feature. So on the sidebar on the left, I'll click the chat button to switch to the chat section. Now, the first column here shows you a list of recent chats that you've had, and you can continue conversations from here, but let's start a new chat. Up at the top, I'll click the new message button and I'll need to search for a recipient here in the too field, so I'll start typing in the name of somebody in my organization, it finds that person and I can select him, and he's been added as a recipient. Now it's interesting to see I have had a conversation here with Stewart in the past, so it remembers that chat history, and it gives me the option here to show the hidden chat history. So if I click on that, I can see our past conversation and I can continue the conversation here. When you're ready to write a…

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