Using the desktop version of WeChat for work, these tips will make you more efficient than others

WeChat has become the leader in the domestic social market. Usually we use WeChat more as a chat tool, but when WeChat needs to be used as an office tool, we have to face the "dilemma" that WeChat cannot adapt to office work.

This time we have sorted out the office skills of the WeChat desktop version, hoping that these skills can improve the efficiency of WeChat office and moderately alleviate the "anxiety" of using WeChat for office work.

Citation Effect

When a colleague asks about the progress of a project in a group, if you don't want to be overwhelmed by a large number of group messages, when you respond to this message, you should use the message quote function to allow colleagues to clearly locate that your reply is directed at the previous message.

Line Break Tips

When entering a large amount of text in the message sending box, it is inevitable that you will need to wrap your line. You can do this by pressing the ⇧Shift - Enter key combination at the same time. This key combination is also applicable to many chat software.

In addition, users can customize the shortcut key combination for the sending message function in the settings page of WeChat PC. The software provides Enter or ⌃Control - Enter.

Save Video

If you just need to save a single video file, right-click the sent video file and you will see the "Save As" option to save it locally.

However, if you need to save multiple video files in batches, you can choose to open the save location of WeChat files and directly view the video resources cached in WeChat chats. We can find the local save location in the following two entrances:

First, right-click a video file and select "Open Folder", which will take you to a folder named Video;

The second is to open WeChat "Settings - General Settings". In file management, users can change the location where WeChat files are saved by themselves. Of course, you can directly click "Open Folder" to open a similar folder path: X:\微信文件\微信文件\(your WeChat account), open the Video folder, which contains a large number of WeChat software video caches and saves the first frame of the video file in jpg format.

Release announcement

If you are the owner of a WeChat group, using the announcement function will be more efficient in achieving the purpose of sending notifications in the group. When a WeChat group publishes an announcement, everyone will be notified in the form of @ everyone, and a pinned message will appear in the group chat interface.

Open the group chat interface, click "· · ·" in the upper right corner, select the group announcement column to enter the editing interface. After editing and saving the content, the software will ask "This announcement will notify all group members, do you want to publish it?" After clicking OK, the announcement content will remind everyone in the group in the form of @ everyone and pinned.

WeChat on mobile devices is a "storage space killer" and appears in the arsenal of many system cleaning tools. The computer version is no less powerful. In addition to using third-party cleaning tools to clear the cache, we can try using WeChat's built-in cleaning function. The specific entrance is:

Open "Settings - General Settings", there is a button to clear chat history in the general section, and it will prompt you how much space is needed to clear it. If you think that clearing all chat history with one click is too "simple and crude", you can open the WeChat file save location mentioned in the previous video saving section. It is recommended to manually clean the contents of the three folders: Files, Image, and Video.

Built-in screenshot function

The WeChat chat box has a built-in screenshot function. Although it can only meet the needs of area screenshots, it has built-in basic image editing options, such as arrows, drawing annotations, and adding text, which reduces the use of third-party image editing tools. A major feature of WeChat screenshots is the ability to add emoticons to favorites, which adds some entertainment to your work.

The desktop version of WeChat has a more powerful function for creating new notes

If we were to list the functions with a low "sense of presence" in WeChat, then note collection would at least be ranked at the top. However, it is precisely this hidden function that can well meet the needs of setting up reminders at work, conveniently sharing content, and even creating a special photo album.

Compared with the Android and iOS versions, the note function of the WeChat PC version lacks the function of directly inserting recording files and geographic locations, but it provides more functions for adjusting the style of note content and quick screenshots. Click "Favorites" on the left side of the WeChat PC version main interface, and then click "New Favorites" to open the note editing interface.

After using it for a while, the note editing interface of WeChat PC can be regarded as an advanced text editor. The commonly used function is to support the insertion and preview of GIF files, and the built-in screenshot function can also directly modify the screenshot image. Another commonly used function is to create to-do items, but because the computer version of WeChat lacks reminders and the function of pinning in chats, it is still insufficient in reminding to-do items. I hope these functions will be added in future version updates.

Conclusion

Although WeChat has not developed special functions for the office market, for professionals who position WeChat as a light office role, the above WeChat computer version software usage skills can alleviate the anxiety of WeChat office to a certain extent. Tencent's recently launched document collaboration product Tencent Docs has been deeply integrated with WeChat and QQ social platforms. It is worthwhile to combine Tencent Docs with WeChat's own functions, which is believed to improve daily office efficiency.