Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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…
By default, a Microsoft Teams meeting has a single organizer that can handle all the meeting settings. But there are times when you will want to have a co-organizer who can also do things if you’re not available. I would suggest that you might ALWAYS want to have one unless it’s a very small meeting. Here’s how you can set that up…
For the longest time, you’ve been locked into the main size of the main video sharing screen in a Microsoft Teams meeting. But now, you can click the divider between the content screen and the people/chat screen to resize based on your requirements. Here’s how that looks…
Microsoft has been adding a number of new Quick Views in Microsoft Teams to let you know when you’re named in a Teams conversation (Follow), when you’ve been mentioned (Mentions), or when you’ve forgotten to send a Teams chat (Drafts). That’s all well and good, but those new views take up room in the navigation pane. Now Microsoft has added a feature to allow you to decide if you want to always see the Quick View or only see it if there’s something there. Here’s how that works…
I had a customer ask a question the other day, and the question was “where did the Quit Teams option go?” When I checked my Teams client, I noticed I didn’t have it either. With the help of a few people, we were able to find where it *did* go…
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