Closing your browser and retaining your open tabs

Have you ever had your browser open with all the tabs you’re using on a project, and you inadvertently close the browser (and you lose all your open tabs)? A colleague of mine had that happen today, and I asked if they had the browser set to open with the tabs that were open when the browser was closed. Since they didn’t know about that setting, I figured I’d share that setting with you in Edge, Chrome, and Firebox…

Using the new Drafts Quick View in Microsoft Teams

Admit it… this has happened to you more than once… You’re responding to a chat message or a channel post in Microsoft Teams, and before you hit enter to send your message… SQUIRREL! And do you remember to go back and send it? (no) And do you wonder why no one responded to you? (yes). Now with the Drafts Quick View, you can find all those partially completed Draft messages than never got sent! Here’s how that works…

Microsoft Teams: Choose your “Enter” key behavior in Teams Chat Settings

This is a change I’ve been waiting for… for a VERY long time! Have you been in a Teams chat, started typing something, and inadvertently hit the Enter key? And of course, off goes the partial chat and you have to quickly fill in the rest of it. Now, you have a chance to update you settings to determine what the Enter key does when it comes to Teams chat messages. Here’s how that works…

Message preview for channels, mentions, and reactions notifications in Microsoft Teams

Many of you might be used to (or hated) how chat messages in Microsoft Teams would provide a short message preview in the notification pop-up. Sometimes that can be rather embarrassing if someone sees your pop-up and the short preview… “raises questions”. This is a heads-up to let you know that if you have that feature turned on, Microsoft is now doing message previews for channels, mentions, and reactions. Here’s how you can work around that…

Using the Network Strength indicator in Microsoft Teams

If you’re a Microsoft Teams user, you have (at some point) ended up with some poor network performance in a Teams meeting or call. But in the middle of what you’re trying to do, you don’t always have a way to tell if it’s you or the other person. Now, Teams provides a Network Strength indicator that can help you do some initial troubleshooting. Here’s what that looks like…