Google Chat for Beginners

Learn to format Google Chat messages with bold and italic text, apply colors and hyperlinks, insert emoji, edit messages, and upload files.

Learn to forward a message from Google Chat to your Gmail inbox, verify it appears in your inbox, and manage chat-to-gmail forwarding steps.

Learn to see who read your Google Chat messages by checking the message viewers in a conversation, and track how many viewed your message.

Enable smart compose and auto-correct in Google Chat settings under messages. This tutorial demonstrates how proactive writing suggestions appear as you compose, helping you write quickly and correct mistakes.

Go to Google Chat, click to record your voice, complete the recording, then stop and send.

Learn to pin and unpin conversations in Google Chat by selecting a chat and clicking pin to board, making the message a pinned message, then clicking unpin to remove it.

Edit a message in Google Chat to adjust content and update it. Delete a message with a single click to remove it from the chat.

Create a space in Google Chat to coordinate a topic or group. Add members, share the invite emails, and join the space to begin collaboration.

Master how to use threads in Google Chat spaces to keep conversations organized by replying in a thread instead of cluttering the main message.

Learn to create and assign a task in a Google Chat space, add task details, assign it to a user, and track completion as recipients receive notifications.

Open the spaces and click delete to remove a space in Google Chat. See the space deleted after you delete it.

Learn how to add and remove members in a Google Chat space by managing members, inviting new emails, and removing participants directly in the space.

Learn how to modify space roles in Google Chat spaces by promoting a member to manager, enabling them to add members.

Learn how to use apps in Google Chat to perform tasks and schedule meetings, and how to create polls.

Learn to use Google Drive inside Google Chat to share and collaborate on files. Attach Drive files in chat and set permissions such as view, comment, or edit.

Learn how to mention a teammate in a Google Chat space by typing @ followed by the name, triggering a notification and sending a targeted message for important updates.

Open the Google Chat app, go to direct messages, and use the start option to compose a message for quick access later.

Master managing Google Chat notifications by turning alerts on or off, choosing desktop notification types and sounds, enabling email alerts for unread messages, and setting a do not disturb schedule.

Discover essential Google Chat shortcuts to navigate spaces, create new spaces, write messages with shift+enter for new lines, search chats or spaces, and format text with ctrl-b, ctrl-i, and ctrl-u.

troubleshoot google chat issues by checking internet, refreshing the app or using the web version, and resolving space members, notification, and file upload problems.