Monday, October 19, 2020

Microsoft Teams Tips and Tricks

This is some tips and tricks for Microsoft Teams 

Teams Keyboard Shortcuts 

Keyboard shortcuts can help increase your efficiency while working with most software and MS Teams is no exception.

Teams has a lot of very useful keyboard shortcuts, but the first one you should learn is Ctrl + . which will open up a list of all the available keyboard shortcuts in MS Teams.

Search Bar Commands

The search bar at the top of Teams is also a command bar. You can perform a lot of actions using the / commands from here, you can use the Ctrl + / command to move the focus to the search bar and list out all the available commands.

Urgent Chat Message

If you need to ensure someone sees your message in Teams, you can send an urgent message.


From inside any chat click on the exclamation icon to select Urgent from the message status options. This will notify them of the new message every 2 minutes for the next 20 minutes.

Activity Center And Filters

To stay up to date with all your Teams activity is to use the activity center, which will show you a timeline feed of all your activity and notifications.


You can then search your activity feed by text search or filter on it to show only certain types of activity like reactions or mentions etc…

Go to the Activity center in the left navigation pane then click on the Filter icon. You can either Type to filter or click the three dots to filter by type of activity.



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