Teams Chat - Sections for Organization

With sections, you can now create your own sections for your chats and move and sort your chats into them—just the way you like it! 

These are also available in Teams for organizing important channels (unfortunately, not for organizing the Teams themselves) 

He​re’s how to set up sections

1. Go to the chat area in Teams and click “+ New Section” at the top
   

2. Assign a name to the section (e.g., “Projects,” “Personal,” “Important”) and, if desired, select an emoji; the emoji can also be added later by renaming the section.

3. Click the three dots to move it to > Section One, or drag and drop it there

Your Benefits 

✅ Better overview

✅ Less stress

✅ Personalized style

✅ Better focus

Of course, you can move sections using drag-and-drop, rename them using the three dots next to the section name, or remove them altogether. If you remove a section, the chats it contains will be moved back to the default “Chats” section.

You can move chats that are included in sections to other sections or remove them from a section at any time. When you remove a chat from a section, it is moved back to the default “Chat” section.

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