Microsoft Teams: Training, tutorials, how-tos

Teams - Reply To Chats - New Feature October 2021

Microsoft Teams has a great new feature for Chat. You can now reply to specific chat messages. This is handy when you are doing a 1-on-1 chat or a group chat, and you have several messages you need to send replies to.

Teams - Why can't I record? Video call vs. meeting

Microsoft Teams allows you to easily record meetings. I'm frequently asked, "Why can't I record?" or "Why is recording disabled?" The answer is that you are doing a video call. Most likely, you were chatting with one person (1-on-1 chat) or doing a group chat. A video call looks similar to a meeting, but it is a call, so the recording feature is disabled.

Teams: Live transcription in Teams meeting - 2021 New Feature!

Teams Meetings now has live transcription! Live transcription is a written record of the spoken text that occurs during a meeting. It identifies each speaker, is captured automatically in near real-time, and is available during and after the meeting. Live transcription is different from the meeting feature Live captions. Captions are not recorded. You could use Live transcription if you joined a meeting late and you need to quickly catch up on what is happening.

Teams chats: hide chats, delete messages and organize your chats

Microsoft Teams chats are used daily. To help you manage your chats, I created this short video on hiding and unhiding chats, deleting messages, and pin and unpin chats. This will help you stay organized if you have a lot of chat history.

Microsoft Teams Improved Screen Sharing Interface | May 2021 Update

Microsoft Teams improves the sharing window, making it easier to select which resource you are sharing - screen, window, application, whiteboard, in the May 2021 update.

Share Outlook email to Teams - New Feature April 2021

From Outlook or Outlook on the web, you can send emails to Team chats and Team channels. Does the email contain attachments? You have the option to share the attachments. This is a great update.

Teams - How to Add an Excel file or Word Doc to a Teams Channel Tab

Need to quickly access an Excel file or Word document in a Teams Channel? It is easy to add a file as a documents tab in a channel. Before making the document tab, the file must exist in the channel. If you click Files Tab and see the file, you can make it a Tab.

Microsoft Teams: March 2021 Update: New features, New look

6 new features and improvements in Microsoft Teams update from March 2021 to do with meetings, calendar, Outlook, navigation and more.

PowerPoint Presentations in a Teams Meeting: Improvements and New Features

Several great improvements for PowerPoint presentations during a Teams meeting: speaker switch, high-contrast view, speaker notes and more.

Outlook - make Teams Meeting the default and Meet Now Feature

The Outlook desktop client now allows all meetings to be Teams meetings by default. No longer do you have to remember to click the Teams Meeting add-in icon in the ribbon. Another new feature in Outlook is you can now have a Meet Now meeting in Teams.

Teams vs. Outlook - Schedule a Teams meeting

Scheduling a Teams meeting can be done in Outlook or Teams. We examine the pros and cons of using each app to schedule meetings.

PowerPoint Presenter View in Microsoft Teams

Share PowerPoint slides in a meeting in Presenter View! If you're a presenter and choose to share a PowerPoint file in a meeting, you will have some behind-the-scenes capabilities with the new presenter view. As the presenter, you will see the current slide, your slide notes or speaker notes, and thumbnails of all the slides in your deck.