Forward a message in Google Chat

You can share important or relevant messages with other people or spaces in Google Chat. This allows you to:

  • Quickly relay information
  • Share updates without needing to add them to another chat
  • Bring a message to a new conversation without copying and pasting the original text

Forward a message

Important:

  • You can forward conversations with people outside your organization into your internal conversations.
  • You can't forward messages from any internal conversations to any external conversations.
  • You can’t forward messages from external conversations to other external conversations.

Forward messages

  1. On your computer, go to Google Chat.
  2. Open a DM or space.
  3. Hover over a message.
  4. Select More Actions .
  5. Select Forward message .
  6. Search for and select all the people or space you want to forward the message to.
    • When you forward a message from a DM or group DM, a reminder about sensitive information appears.
  7. Select Next.
    • Optional: You can add your own message before you share the forwarded message.
  8. Select Send message .

Tips:

  • To send any attachments or images included in the original message, forward the message.
  • To increase the message's visibility, forward a message from a thread to the main stream of the same space.

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