# Chat during a meeting

> Click the Chat button at the bottom of the room, type in the message box, and press Enter to send.

Category: Rooms and meetings
Web page: https://www.pactto.com/help/chat
All guides: https://www.pactto.com/help.md

## Room chat

Every room has a text chat. Messages stay in the room, so people who join later can read the history.

### Open the chat

1. Click the **Chat** button at the bottom of the room.
2. A number on the button shows how many new messages you have not seen.
3. To close the chat, click the X (**Close**), click the **Chat** button again, or press Escape. On the canvas, clicking outside the panel also closes it. In conversation mode on a computer, the chat opens as a column beside the camera grid and only closes with the X, the **Chat** button, or Escape.

### Send a message

1. Type in the box that says **Type your message here**.
2. Press Enter to send. Press Shift+Enter for a new line.

Links in messages become clickable and open in a new tab.

### Dictate a message

1. Click the microphone button in the message box (**Dictate a message**). If your room microphone is muted, Pactto unmutes it.
2. Speak. Your words appear in the box (the box shows **Listening… speak now**).
3. Click **Stop dictation**, check the text, then send it. Dictated text is never sent automatically.

### Copy, edit, or delete a message

1. Click the three-dot button in the top right corner of the message (**Message options**).
2. Choose:
   - **Copy message** to copy the text. Available on every message.
   - **Edit message** to change your own message. Press Enter (or click outside the box) to save, or Escape to cancel. Edited messages show **(edited)**.
   - **Delete message** to remove it for everyone. Only the room owner sees this option, and it works on any message. Confirm with **Yes, delete message**. This cannot be undone.

### Good to know

- When you open the chat with unread messages, it scrolls to an **Unread messages** marker.
- If you are reading older messages and new ones arrive, click **New messages** to jump to the latest.
- Messages show the sender's avatar, name, and time, grouped by day (**Today**, **Yesterday**, or the date).
- The chat button is unavailable until the chat connection is ready.
- The chat, the AI assistant, and live captions panels open one at a time. Opening one closes the others.
- Consecutive messages from the same person are grouped under one name.

## Related guides

- [Turn your camera and microphone on or off](https://www.pactto.com/help/camera-and-microphone.md): Use the camera and microphone buttons at the top right of the room, or press C for camera and M for microphone.
- [Read the transcript and live captions of a meeting](https://www.pactto.com/help/transcripts.md): Pactto transcribes what each person says while their microphone is on; open the Live captions panel (the CC button at the bottom right of the room) to read the transcript, translate it, or show captions on screen.
- [Mute other participants](https://www.pactto.com/help/mute-other-participants.md): If you are the room owner or an editor, open Room members from the avatars at the top right and click Mute next to a person or Mute all, or click the microphone badge on someone's camera tile.