Removing Activity items in new Microsoft Teams

If you’re like me, you may tend to use your Activity Feed in Teams like a To Do list of items you may need to follow up on. Unfortunately, that feed can get pretty cluttered pretty quickly, and it’d be nice to be able to actually remove items that are done or that aren’t relevant to anything you’re doing. Now you can! Here’s how that works…

Using Portrait Blur in new Microsoft Teams

I generally use the Blur feature when I’m using my camera on a new Teams call, as I don’t think people want to see the junk on top of my dressers. But the regular Blur is pretty blocky and doesn’t always look great. There’s now a more refined version of Blur called Portrait Blur, and I like it much better. Here’s how it works and looks…

Expand/Collapse conversations in Outlook on the web

It’s not uncommon to have emails that are grouped by conversation. However, it can be a pain to manually click on each email to expand it. If you’re using Outlook on the web, you can use the Expand and Collapse conversation button in the menu bar to make that a lot easier. Here’s how it works…

Using Chat from within Outlook on the web

Have you ever been reading an email and think that you really need to chat with that particular individual? That usually means switching over to Microsoft Teams to start the chat. But if you use Outlook on the web, you can start the chat from within Outlook! Here’s how that works…