Here's how to use Google's latest messaging app on the desktop and mobile. Figuring out what Google Chat can do can be confusing. This guide helps you set up and use Google Chat.

You can use Google Chat to message anyone, as long as you know their name, email address, or phone number.

How to Make the Words Slanted in Google Chat. Google Chat, available from within Gmail and other Google services, doesn't offer the capabilities of other chat clients at first glance.

Google is looking to make team collaboration even easier, by adding a very Slack-like feature to Chat, with 'Huddles'.

How to Customize a Google Chat Window. The free Google Talk program lets you have text, voice and video chats over the Internet with friends and colleagues who are signed into Google Talk.