Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
While you’ve been able to forward messages from Microsoft Teams for some time, there was always a problem in trying to get the context of the message. All you saw was the forwarded message and that was it. Now when you forward a message, the recipient also gets a link to the message so that you can see the surrounding context. Here’s how that works…
You’re probably used to using the search feature in Microsoft Teams to find words and such in various chats and channels. But now you can also search for images. Here’s what that looks like…
If you’re a Windows user, you are probably aware that you can right-click on an application icon in the Windows Task bar to see shortcuts to various options for that particular application. The Microsoft Teams desktop application has had some changes to the jump list that might save you some time. Here’s what it now looks like…
If you’re a keyboard shortcut person, you may have done a lot of searching for how to use all the various keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Teams. There’s an easy way to get that entire list… just press CTRL-. (period). Here’s what it looks like…
With everyone’s busy schedules, it’s not unusual to have to miss meetings where you are double- (or TRIPLE-) booked. Then you need to try to find time to listen to the recording, sometimes at double-speed to save time. Now if you have Copilot, you can use the Audio Recap feature to get a concise synopsis of the meeting in a fraction of the time. This is how it looks and works…
Have you ever gone into the Settings for Microsoft Teams to change something, and found yourself clicking through every single option looking for what you’re after? Now you can just search for the option using the Settings search. Here’s what that looks like:
Sometimes screen real estate can become an issue if you have a lot of things going on in a Teams meeting. You can now pop out the Chat pane into a separate window, however. That can give you more room to see screen sharing by others. Here’s how that works…
When you’re working in a busy Teams channel with multiple people responding to multiple posts, it can get hard to follow and/or scroll through what is going on. Microsoft has a new formatting option for Teams channels called Threads. It enables you to respond to a post with replies that do not clutter up the main screen, and appear in a separate Threads panel. Here’s how that works and looks…
Have you ever been in a Teams meeting where you have an agenda item that should take a set amount of time, like five minutes? Do you still find yourself stuck on that agenda item after 15? Teams has a new feature that can help control time sprawl on those discussions… the Timer! Here’s how that works…
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