Organize Chats via Microsoft Teams Sections

As you collaborate inside various Microsoft Teams and Channels, I am sure you quickly become overwhelmed with all the simultaneous conversations taking place across teams’ channels and 1:1 chats. Luckily, we now have a way to organize all these chats into various buckets called Teams Sections. Let me show you how it works.

1. If you navigate to the Microsoft Teams app, you will notice a section labeled “Favorites.” This is a default section that is created for you.
2. You can either rename it or remove it if you wish. Or you can just leave it alone and organize your chats using that section.
3. To organize/pin a given channel into a specific section, just click on the three dots next to it, then choose Show in > Favorites
4. The Teams Channel will now appear in the designated Teams section
5. And of course, you can always create new sections by choosing the New section option
6. This is an example of a New section created with a Channel “inside”

Nuances about Teams Sections

• Just like you can organize channels into sections, you can also organize regular chats. To do so, just click the three dots next to the chat and show it in a given section

• When you pin a given channel or chat to a section, it just creates a copy/bookmark to that channel from the section – it still will also appear under the parent team/original location

• Teams Channel Sections are just for your personal organization – every user can organize their own channel preferences.
• If you organize channels from various teams and the channels have the same name, it can get confusing. Therefore, assigning a unique name to your channels or using different teams’ logos will help.
• When a Team or Channel is archived by the Team Owner, the archived channel will disappear from the Sections area.
• You can also sort your chats within a given section, too!