Microsoft Teams: Training, tutorials, how-tos

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.

Teams Channel Calendar now available - New Feature

Channels in Teams can have their own calendar. This is a great new feature that allows Teams members to quickly see upcoming channel meetings all in one place.

Roles in a Teams Meeting: Organizer - Presenter - Attendee

Teams Meetings have three roles: Organizer, Presenter, and Attendee. You have different capabilities depending on your role. We will cover all the possibilities on the roles and how to change roles.

7 reasons to enable the New Meeting Experience in Teams

Microsoft Teams has now the new Meeting Experience. At a first look it might not be as easy as it sounds, so I will walk you through all the steps you need to do and also give you 7 reasons for using the new experience.

Live Captions in Microsoft Teams with speaker attributions

Recently Microsoft Teams updated their live caption enhancement to a newer version. We tested the enhanced live caption feature, discussed Teams on the web, punctuation and how live captions work in recorded videos.

Microsoft Teams Meetings Update: New Features for Pop-out Meetings, Focus Mode, Meeting Notes and more | July 2020

Microsoft has some major features scheduled for release for Microsoft Teams, particularly to do with Meetings

Teams download custom background images for Family Guy, the Simpsons and other shows

Fox has created backgrounds you can use as custom images in Teams meetings. The background images include The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Masked Singer, LEGO Masters, Bob's Burgers, and others.