Suggested Replies and Search Within a Teams Chat

Replying quickly to a message or finding something in a single conversation: Teams has handy features for that. Here is how suggested replies and searching within a chat or channel work. Both are standard in Teams, and with a Copilot license Copilot can also help draft replies or summarize a conversation.

Suggested replies

Below a received chat message, Teams sometimes shows short replies such as "Sounds good!" or "I'll look into it". Tap or click one to send it right away. You mostly see them in the mobile app and in one-on-one chats.

Don't find them useful? In the mobile app you can usually turn them off in the messaging settings. The exact name of the option may differ.

Search within one chat or channel

Open the chat or channel.
Press Ctrl + F (on a Mac Cmd + F).
Type your search term. You only get results from that conversation.

Searching within a chat in Microsoft Teams

Want to search all of Teams? Press Ctrl + E and filter by messages, people or files.

Also see search Teams quickly and Teams keyboard shortcuts.

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Suggested replies and searching within a chat in Microsoft Teams