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Option to close\hide multiple chat windows

From the recent tab, if we could right click and an option to close\hide multiple chat windows. Precious seconds are lost for those who don't use keyboard shortcuts.
Another idea could be adding a checkbox when mouse howers over. This way we can quickly select chats and then close them at once.

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  • Gill commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes Yes tick boxes would suffice to Option to close\hide multiple chat windows AND Option to close\hide multiple Teams like a school at the end of a semester or year timetable change

  • Xuanyu Hu commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hide multiple chat windows is a must-have feature to make my Chat window clean.
    Please add it in a future release.

    If you cannot make the change, can you at least give a short cut on hiding one chat in Mac OS?

  • Stacey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Make it like Skype, sign out and chats are gone/hidden whatever! I just hid 30.... one at a time!!!! And do this everyday! Really?? Way to much noise to look at that growing list all day long, to the next day and the next day.

  • Steve commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed, I'm involved in dozens of chats every day and hiding them one by one is just not practical. C'mon microsoft, this can't be so hard that it takes months to resolve.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I work for a really large company and we are moving toward using chat but this is a must have feature. Like the comment below I have 20+ chats a day and it is very time consuming to close them one by one. Please make this a feature to be able to close them all at one time.

  • Marbry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Doing multi select to operate on more than one item at a time in a list of things is a pretty basic and common UI feature.

    Not being able to do this with chats in teams is a big PITA. Seems like a bad oversight.

  • Deanna commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adding my voice to this. Just spent several minutes hiding old chats, and more to go... waste of time. It was so easy to do this on Skype-- just close out of Skype, and old chats went away. Now I have a month's worth of chats and figured out they aren't going away on their own :-(

  • Bryan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Sheesh. This is a no brainer. It looks like someone puked pixels on my page all day long. Distracting. Time consuming to clear out.

  • Satish commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Need this functionality, as by the end of the day I have 20 chats open and i have to go to each chat to hide it. Signing out and logging back in still shows those chats. Need a way to hide all the chat at once.

  • Daniel Harper commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please give the ability to hide multiple recent chats from the recent tab. I am a team lead on a global desktop team for a large company. I am engaged in about 30 chats a day. By the end of the week, it takes me 30 minutes to clear my chats on a slow week. Please give us the ability to buld hide recent chats!
    Using all my votes for this!!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree, this is essentially what I had asked for as well. Just a select/deselect multiple option. Like Cntl+click in outlook

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