TL;DR:
Microsoft have announced improvements to the search experience for chats and channels. They include a search pane on the right, a ‘Find in channel’ button and improved result captioning/highlighting. Now due early to late October 2023.
Details:
The old way: you can still search using the Ctrl+F (win) or Cmd +F (Mac) shortcuts but the search experience will change. On Windows, go to a channel, and press Ctrl+F (there will soon be a button for this) and you get this in the search/command bar at the top:
You can search just that channel and the results appear in the rail on the left (which hides your view of channels/chats – this is changing), note that Teams is not highlighting why it is showing this result (this is changing):
The experience in chat is similar.
Now let’s look at the improvements.
- Pressing Ctrl+F (win) or Cmd +F (Mac) will open the Search experience in the right handrail, meaning you can view search results and still view your channels/chats on the rail on the left:
Chat (this also works with popped-out chats):
Channels:
2. Hate keyboard shortcuts? There will be a new ‘Find in Channel’ button in the channel info pane:
3. Wondering why certain results are being shown when searching a chat or channel? The new experience will show a caption of the results and highlight the keyword you’ve searched on:
Availability:Due early to mid-June 2023.Now due mid-June to early July 2023.Now late July to early August 2023.Now due mid to late September 2023.
Now due early to late October 2023.
Source, related links, and references:
MC554158.
Check status:
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550.
