Using Excel Live in Microsoft Teams

One of the newest features in Microsoft Teams is Excel Live, which gives you the opportunity to collaborate on an Excel spreadsheet when you are presenting it in a Teams meeting. Here’s how it works…

Editing your last Microsoft Teams chat message with the Up Arrow key

This is a really quick tip that can make it very easy to correct your last chat message in Teams without hunting for an ellipsis. Just click the Up Arrow key on your keyboard! Here’s how it works…

Sending emails to a Microsoft Teams channel

In one of our Teams channels, we like to post “future updates” that we get from the Microsoft Message Center. But having to copy and paste content from the email we receive can be a real pain. An easier way to do this is to use the channel’s email address to send (or forward) the content directly to the Teams channel. Here’s how that works…

Forms: Distribute your forms by using Teams as a new channel

Microsoft has a new feature for Forms that allows you to publish the form directly to a channel in Teams (instead of having to get a link and post it somewhere). Here’s what that looks like…

Microsoft Teams: Usability Improvements to In-Meeting Notifications

One of the things I’ve always found frustrating about Teams meetings is how all the various notifications show up all over the place. Chat messages in the lower-right corner, recording messages as a bar across the top, etc. Now with this set of changes, all the in-meeting notifications will be consistent and show up in a common area. Here’s what it looks like…

Creating Tasks from a Microsoft Teams chat entry

The nice thing about having a wife who is a user training and adoption specialist is that she lets me know about cool tips she finds… and this one is pretty cool! You can create a task from a Microsoft Teams chat entry, which is perfect when you have something you need to follow up on. Here’s how that works…

Sending a Microsoft Team chat message from the search bar

Sandra Mahan showed me a cool tip the other day when it comes to sending a Microsoft Teams chat message. You can do that without even leaving the chat bar at the top of the screen! Here’s how that works…

Microsoft Teams – Pop out shared content in a meeting

If you work with two monitors, you’ve probably wished you could do a better job of managing Teams during a meeting. More specifically, it’d be nice if you could have the shared content in a meeting move to a separate window so you can more easily work with the rest of Teams. Now you can! Here’s how that works…

Using Adjust Brightness and Soft Focus in your Microsoft Teams video meetings

High-definition cameras are great for some things, but there are times you *really* don’t want people seeing all the “fine detail” on your face during a video call. Microsoft Teams now has two settings that will help smooth things out a bit… Adjust Brightness and Soft Focus. Here’s how they work…