Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
While the Activity Feed can give you a lot of good information across all your Teams spaces and chats, it can be hard to find just the items you are looking for. You can make that a lot easier by using the filters in the Activity Feed to narrow down the content you’re looking for. Here’s how that works…
The Activity Feed in Microsoft Teams is a great way to get an overall view of posted items, replies, and various other things that have happened in Teams spaces that you are part of. But… it can be really hard to wade through the mix of things you have and haven’t yet read. There is now an Unread Only toggle in the Activity Feed that will help you focus only on the things that you haven’t yet looked at. Here’s what it looks like…
One of the frustrating things about searching in Microsoft Teams has been that you didn’t really get the context behind a particular chat message that matched the search parameters. With a recent update, you can now click on that chat search result and see the full context of the chat message. Here’s how that works…
Sometimes in a Microsoft Teams meeting, it can be a chore to find the microphone settings to unmute yourself (while people keep telling you “you’re on mute”). An easy way to quickly (and temporarily) unmute yourself is to use the Ctrl + Spacebar key combination. Here’s what it looks like…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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