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How do I find channels within teams?

Hi.

This is obviously a very basic question, but I don't think there's a simple solution.

I have just discovered that colleagues have been working in a particular channel, for a particular team, which I was unaware of. This made me wonder how I am supposed to see all the channels belonging to a team. As far as I can see there is no easy way to do this.

I can search for teams in the search bar, but I am only taken to the "general" channel for that team. None of the other channels are displayed. I can also search for teams in the panel on the left, but when I do this, all channels are hidden by default. As far as I am aware, the only way to see all the channels belonging to a team is to manually scroll down through the panel on the left, taking care to show hidden channels. As I am subscribed to at least 50 channels, some of which are hidden by default, this is extremely laborious.

This ought to be simpler. There should be an option to uncollapse all channels when doing searches in the left-hand pane. This would quickly allow one to identify the channels belonging to a team. Also when one finds a team/channel via the search bar, which takes you to the general channel, the team and all associated channels should be automatically focused in the left-hand pane.

This would go a long way to making Teams much more usable. Or am I just doing things wrong?

Nick

Hi

My name is Daniel. I am an Independent Advisor and consumer of Microsoft products, I will be more than happy to help you.

Disclaimer: First of all, I want to let you know this is a peer-to-peer forum meaning I'm just regular MS Team forum users like you who are trying to help other MS Team forum users with their MS Team issue. So in this case, I'm Non-Microsoft Staff I don't have access to your account nor I'm authorized to do so. I hope we can have a mutual understanding from the beginning to prevent misunderstanding.

If you don't see other channels other than the general channel listed under the Team, then it's very possible for the team owner to set up private channels. For private channels, only members of that channel can see private channels.

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Thanks for that. I don't think that the difficulty seeing channels attached to teams is in any way related to the settings of those channels. The behaviours I describe are default behaviours.

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I have changed the team view to the tabular view rather than the list view. If you search for a team in this view, all of the channels within that team are shown. This goes a long way towards resolving my issues. However, I still feel that having all channels collapsed whenever you do a search in list view is not helpful, and there should be an option to counter this behaviour.

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I wonder whether you are experiencing the same issue when using MS Teams online.

Please follow these steps below to isolate the issue:
1. Please go to your computer then open your chrome or edge browser as recommended browsers to access MS Teams online.
2. Please go to MS Teams online https://teams.microsoft.com
3. Then try to log in.

Are you experiencing the same issue when you are using MS Teams online from your computer?

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I also want to let you know, if the teacher as a team owner creates a private channel (with the padlock sign next to it) then un-invited students won't be able to see the private channel unless until the teacher has added the student as the member of the private channel. Please see the screenshot.
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Last updated April 11, 2025 Views 8,791 Applies to: