Custom emojis can help you personalize messages and celebrate your team's culture. You can also make your own emojis and share them across your organization. To choose the appropriate emoji, hover your mouse over the message, click Add Reaction, and don't forget to have fun. You can also use an emoji to react to a message sent in any direct or group message sent in Google Chat, even shared files. You've already learned how to insert an emoji into a message. Using emojis and GIFs can also help you better express yourself during virtual conversations. To end the call, click the Call End icon. Open a one-on-one chat message in the app and click the Start Voice Call or Start Video Call icon. If you're using an Android or iOS mobile device, you can start a voice or video call from chat or Gmail. To send the invite from Google Chat, click Save and Share. To schedule a meeting for later with the person or all members of the group that you're messaging, click Google Workspace Tools, select Calendar Invite, and add the meeting details using the Google Calendar side panel on your screen. Click Add Video Meeting to invite a person or group to join a Google Meet video meeting. Messaging can be an efficient way to communicate, but sometimes a face-to-face meeting is necessary. If you need to use additional features like commenting, you can click and open the file in a new tab to do so. To open the editor, hover your mouse over the file and click Open in Chat. When collaborating on Docs and Sheets files directly in Google Chat, you can edit, format, share, and rename them. You can view Docs and Sheets files shared with Drive directly in Google Chat. If anyone in the conversation doesn't have permission to access it, Google Chat will prompt you to modify the access to let them view, edit, or comment on the file. To share a file from Drive, click Google Workspace Tools and then click Drive File. A thumbnail image of the file will appear in the conversation and your colleagues can click to open and view it or download it. You can add a message along with the file for context or requests before sending the message. Click the upload file button to browse your computer for a file to share. Google Chat makes it simple to share files with a person or group through messages. Creating, editing, and sharing files is an important part of collaboration in the modern office. To create a task in your personal task list, you can hover your mouse over a message, click More Actions and click Add to Tasks.
If the messages are ever deleted from Google Chat or you turn off history for the conversation, the messages will remain in Gmail. The message you clicked and the previous four messages in the conversation thread will be sent to your inbox. Click More Actions and then click Forward to Inbox. To do this, hover your mouse over a message. Google Chat lets you forward messages directly to Gmail. As you communicate with someone or a team, you might want to retain important messages for future reference. Google Chat has many interactive features that help you collaborate better with others.