Spaces

Find your Account and Space, open a channel or direct message, send a message, and check replies and mentions.

Check the conversation and its audience, send a message, then edit your text or delete the message if needed.

Match everyday Teams tasks to Spaces, and check your institution's guidance for old messages, files, and meeting links.

Move through Spaces controls with Tab, search with Ctrl+K or Cmd+K, and use the message box without a mouse.

A Space is a named group of channels and people inside one Account; channels hold the messages, and threads hold side-discussions.

Choose Explore Spaces in the left-hand navigation, search by name, and join a Space you can access.

Choose DMs in the left-hand navigation, then start a conversation with one person or a small group.

A channel is one shared conversation inside a Space; a sub-channel sits under a channel and draws its members from it.

Open the actions on the message you want to answer and choose Reply in thread; the replies open in a panel beside the channel.

Threads appear under the channel row in the navigation column and in full on the channel's Threads tab.

Type @ in the composer and pick a name; a resolved mention notifies that person even when the conversation is muted.

Unread counts conversations that need you; Mentions counts the individual mentions inside them. Both are per destination.

Open the actions on a message and choose Pin message; pinned messages collect on the channel's Pins tab.

Use the plus button in the composer to upload a file or pick one from Drive, or drag files onto the message pane.

The Files tab lists files shared or uploaded in the channel, newest first, with downloads where available.

Press Ctrl+K or Cmd+K to search everything you can read, or use the channel header's search box for one conversation.

Open a channel's call button, choose your camera and microphone, then join; others can join from the same channel.

Set what a single conversation notifies you about from its row menu, and set the default for everything in Spaces settings.

A link pasted into a message expands into a card; GitHub, scholarly, media, and Evolve links get purpose-built cards.

A Space you expect is missing because you are not a member, it is invite only, your Account lost Spaces access, or a collaboration ended.

The composer is locked because the channel is an announcement channel, it is archived, your access is read only, or a send failed.

Files is on every channel; on a narrow window its name is hidden or the tabs collapse into a menu, and an empty channel reads No files yet.

Check the conversation's setting, its channel and parent channel if present, your account default, then browser permission.

Choose New Space in the left-hand navigation, name the Space, add people if needed, and create it.

Choose Create channel in the Space you want, name it, pick who can open it, then choose Create.

Open the channel's members list, then add a person by name or email, or add an eligible workgroup.

Space administrators manage membership and settings; channel roles control some actions; named Space roles help group members for mentions.

A Space can be shared with another Account through a collaboration; members of that Account then read, or read and post, in its channels.

A desk is an AI teammate you reach by mentioning it in its own Space; agent work can also be started from a single message.

Open the Space menu from the rail, then choose Leave Space to remove yourself or Delete Space to remove it for everyone.