Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Microsoft made a change to the Quick Views area for chats. By default, those quick view categories only show up if there’s an unread item that qualifies for one of the categories. If something like @Mentions has no unread items, it doesn’t show up. However, you do have the option to change that on each of the chat quick views. Here’s how you do that…
In Microsoft Teams, you can choose to filter your chats and channels to only show unread items. However, that makes it difficult to see or get to other channels that do not have unread items. Now you can use a special icon to see chats and channels with read items so you can quickly navigate to them. Here’s how that works…
Ah, yes… in virtually every Teams meeting, you will hear this phrase: “Can you hear me?” Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way you could test your microphone and speakers before you actually join a meeting? Now you can! Here’s how that looks and works…
Up until now, you’ve had three options for opening files when you’re in Teams. You could open the file in Teams, the Browser, or the Desktop app. However, Microsoft is making a change in the default setting for opening files in Teams. Here’s the scenario…
There’s little that is more irritating than getting pop-up chat notifications for a meeting you were invited to but aren’t attending. You can mute the chat, but what happens if you need to go back and look at the chat after the fact? This is where the muted Teams meeting chats hang out…
Live Captions in Microsoft Teams meeting is a somewhat hidden but very useful feature. If you are having issues understanding someone’s speech or if you have a hearing impairment, you might want to check this out. The best thing is… Live Captions are specific to you, and are not part of a meeting recording. Here’s how that works…
In Microsoft Teams, every meeting you have may have a chat associated with it. And while all those chats will show up in your Chat navigation area, good luck in scrolling through the mix of meeting chats, group chats, and one-on-one chats you’ve had over time. Fortunately, Microsoft is rolling out a change that allows you to filter your chat area to ONLY show your meeting chats. Here’s what it looks like…
Microsoft’s Together Mode was a way to display all the attendees in a meeting using seating and backgrounds that made it look like everyone was attending a virtual meeting in person. However, Microsoft has chosen to retire Together Mode, and make the gallery the default meeting view and layout for multi-participant layouts. Here’s the information that Microsoft has provided…
When you have a group chat in Microsoft Teams, it can be tough to summarize the information in a way that makes it easy for the participants to know what’s going on. Microsoft now allows you to use the Notes feature in a group chat to have that summary info off to the side. Here’s how that works…
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