| User Roles | Admin | ✗Staff contributor | ✗External contributor | ✗Pulse user |
When a colleague leaves the company, the communication they created stays in the system. An admin user can remove it, once that colleague's user profile has been made inactive.
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How do I deactivate the user?
Only admin users can do this.
- Go to the user details at firm level and select the correct user.
- Click Make inactive to make the user inactive.

For more detail on this step, see How to deactivate or reactivate a user in Silverfin?
How do I remove the communication?
Once the user is deactivated, any admin user can remove the communication that user added.
- Go to the relevant file.
- Delete the communication added by the inactive user.
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