The new year is here! This means new opportunities, new challenges, new victories, and new tips and tricks to try to make your work life better.
Here is a list of 24 tips and tricks you can try when using Microsoft Teams to make the most out of it.
Microsoft Teams gives you the freedom to set your status. For example, you can simply set your status to “Do not disturb” for an hour, and Microsoft Teams will automatically reset your status at the end of the hour.
Microsoft Teams gives you the ability to add tabs to a chat. Create personal tabs to organize your workspace, or create shared tabs for your team or group chats. Owners and team members can do so by clicking “Add a Tab” at the top of the chat.
Type out your message to an individual or group chat and before you click send, right click the "send arrow" and select "send at scheduled time". Pick your day and time and Teams will deliver it then. Perfect for collaborating with team members in other time zones or for ensuring your message gets delivered a specific time.
On the Teams app bar (left handrail), you can pin personal apps by right-clicking on the app icon and clicking pin.
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Microsoft Teams allows the activation of live transcriptions, which is an added advantage for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.
To ensure your message is noticed by the recipient, you can mark it as important or urgent just beneath the compose box, and the words IMPORTANT or URGENT will be added to your message.
Meet Now lets you start instant, informal chats right in your group chat. It's like dropping by a coworker's desk but for remote teams. No scheduling is needed – just quick, real-time conversations whenever you need them.
So you don't waste your time while searching Microsoft Teams, you can use the Messages, Files, or People tabs above your results to refine your search. Other filters will appear after the first selection to enable you to refine your results further.
Emojis always bring out the best reactions, and anyone using the Microsoft Teams app can react to a message using a custom emoji.
On the Meeting Notes tab in a meeting with other members, you can jot down important notes. It offers numerous features, such as adding the agenda, @mentioning other participants, and formatting options for the text.
The functionality of any messaging app can be found on Microsoft Teams. Press and hold on a message to mark it as unread and you can review it later.
Microsoft Teams offers the flexibility to create and assign custom tags that categorize different users based on things such as their roles, skills, projects, or even their location.
You can capture audio, video, and screen-sharing activity from a Teams meeting with the record function. You can even get a script of the Teams meeting by enabling the "transcript" function. You don't need to pay for transcription services anymore.
To make conversations easier to find, you can add a title relevant to the chat.
You can set up Microsoft Teams notifications to get notified when new messages appear in all your channels, just favorited channels, or only when you're mentioned.
By selecting video or audio, you can start a call directly within a chat.
If you enjoy your privacy or just want to hide the messy kitchen behind you, you can blur your background prior to joining a meeting. You even add a custom background.
As soon as you make a channel in Microsoft Teams, a SharePoint folder is made for you automatically. You can also add a document library from a different SharePoint site as a tab.
Microsoft Teams allows you to connect and also decide what third-party apps can be used in your Teams. Click Apps on the bottom left of your Teams app to add a new one.
If you want to refer specifically to one person, you can do so by @mentioning them by name, such as "@ModuleQ". Or, you can filter messages by using the @mention as a message filter.
From the Outlook desktop app, you can share a copy of an email with its attachments directly to Microsoft Teams.
The Teams search bar also functions as a command-line terminal. You can speed up some of the most common tasks by typing one of the recognized commands: /files lets you see your most recent files, /unread shows you what's new, and /call lets you make a call. You can find the list of commands here.
You don't need to scour through Microsoft Teams trying to find that one important message. Click on the three ellipses in the top left corner of the message and select “Save this message” and you're good to go.