(Microsoft Teams)超过 1500 万用户使用Microsoft Teams ,每秒约有 1300 名用户连接到Teams呼叫。(Teams)2021 年和 2022 年的大流行影响导致其在远程工作和会议上以虚拟方式连接人们的突然增长。应用程序的参与度和Teams(Teams)上的活跃用户数量简直令人难以置信,并达到了极限。它是Skype for business 的最佳替代品,您可以在其中享受令人难以置信的功能。很少有值得注意的Microsoft Teams功能和优势包括群聊、视频/语音通话、屏幕共享选项、大型会议、在线教室等等。作为Microsoft 365环境的一部分,Microsoft Teams会议功能结合了Outlook、SharePoint和其他Microsoft应用程序的角色。简而言之,您可以享受大量Microsoft Teams功能和优势,下面列出了其中的最佳集合。希望这篇文章对你有很大帮助!
微软团队的 10 大最佳功能(Best 10 Microsoft Teams Features)
在本节中,我们汇总了这些天隐藏在您脑海中的Microsoft Teams会议功能列表。(Microsoft Teams)阅读(Read)并与您认为有用的朋友分享这些内容。
1. 在 Teams 中共享电子邮件(1. Share Email in Teams)
有时,可能需要从Outlook邮件中复制内容并将其粘贴到Teams聊天中。复制(Copy)和粘贴(Paste)将是许多人的首选。然而,这是不必要的,因为Microsoft Teams向 Teams 共享邮件的(sharing mail to Teams)功能将非常有用。Outlook和Teams之间的内置功能可让您执行此操作。
- 此Microsoft Teams功能将有助于那些与外部客户、供应商、同行等打交道的组织(organizations that deal with external customers, vendors, peers, and a lot more)。
- 您可以将所有这些电子邮件发送到单个 Teams 频道(send all those emails to a single Teams Channel),这样可以避免错误的回复并保持邮件干净。
- 若要将Outlook邮件共享给Teams,您必须拥有Outlook 加载项(Outlook add-in)。此加载项会自动安装在您的 PC 上,供Teams用户使用。请注意,移动Teams用户不支持此功能。
按照以下步骤与Teams共享电子邮件。
1. 如果您使用的是桌面应用程序,您只需单击工具栏功能区中的Share to Teams按钮;如果您使用的是 Web 应用程序,请单击邮件右上角的更多操作...图标。(More actions … )
2. 在此处输入您要共享邮件的人员、组或频道的名称。
如果您在邮件中有任何附件,它们会在您发送到Teams时自动包含在内。如果要删除它们,可以取消选中包含附件(Include attachments)选项。享受直接向(Enjoy)Teams发送邮件的乐趣,而无需使用常规的常规方法。
2. 使用分组讨论室(2. Use Breakout Rooms)
请注意,此Microsoft Teams功能仅适用于桌面应用程序用户(Microsoft和Mac)的会议组织者。如果您的会议人数超过 300 人,并且您在会议前创建 Teams分组讨论室(Breakout Rooms)时,您不能使用此功能,您不能添加超过 300 人。
- 当您在分组讨论会议室中时,您无法从参与者面板向会议添加人员、无法向聊天中添加其他人员、无法使用呼叫我功能,也无法复制加入会议内容(you cannot add people to the meeting from the participant’s panel, cannot add additional people to the chat, cannot use the Call me feature, and cannot copy the Join meeting contents)。否则,您可以享受聊天和交换信息的所有其他功能。
- 您可以在开始会议时或在会议进行中创建 Teams 分组讨论室,( create Teams Breakout Rooms when you are initiating a meeting or in the middle of your meeting)以允许一小部分参与者进行讨论和协作。
- 您可以为一次会议创建大约 50 个团队分组讨论室( create around 50 Teams Breakout Rooms for a single meeting)。因此,您可以将会议中的用户分成几个组来讨论会议的任何特定/一般内容。
如果您是会议的组织者/演示者,您可以按照以下步骤在Teams中创建(Teams)分组讨论室。(Breakout Rooms)
1. 像往常一样,创建会议邀请并开始会议。
2. 现在,单击下面突出显示的分组讨论室选项。(Breakout rooms )
3. 在下一个窗口中,您可以从下拉菜单中选择要创建的房间数量,最后,单击创建房间(Create rooms ),如图所示。
创建分组讨论(Breakout)室后,您可以重命名它们并手动或自动将参与者分配给它们。就是这样。作为分组讨论室(Breakout Room)管理员,您可以添加和删除房间、管理房间中的参与者、加入任何房间、退出和打开房间、为房间分配时间限制、发送通知以及在必要时重新创建房间。如果您无法管理分组讨论室(Breakout rooms),您也可以分配一个参与者或演示者来管理它。
另请阅读:(Also Read:) 如何使用 Microsoft Teams 秘密表情符号(How to Use Microsoft Teams Secret Emoticons)
3. 虚拟白板(3. Virtual Whiteboard)
Microsoft Teams与(Microsoft Teams)Microsoft Whiteboard有关联,您可以通过它在会议中一起绘图、写作和素描来分享您的意见。此白板(Whiteboard)协作可供会议中的所有参与者使用。要在Teams meet中使用Whiteboard ,请确保您的设备上有(Whiteboard)Microsoft Whiteboard。
您可以通过拖动字母、添加文本、添加注释、可以添加库图像、必(Bing)应图像或相机(Camera)图像、粘贴文档、添加PDF/Word/PowerPoint文档以及更多有趣的功能来书写很多。您可以按照以下步骤使所有参与者都可以看到您的白板。(Whiteboard)
1. 启动或加入会议后,单击打开共享托盘(Open share tray )图标,如下所示。
2. 现在,在右侧,单击Microsoft Whiteboard,如图所示。
现在,Microsoft Whiteboard加载到屏幕上,完成后,屏幕显示如下。
现在,会议的参与者可以使用这个令人惊叹的Microsoft Teams(Microsoft Teams)功能来享受他们的想法。属于同一租户的与会者可以在Whiteboard上进行协作,而陌生人、联盟或匿名用户则不能这样做。请注意,当您使用Whiteboard在正在录制的(Whiteboard)Teams会议中共享内容时,这不会成为录制内容的一部分。此功能处于开发阶段,一旦更改成功, Microsoft将立即向您宣布。(Microsoft)
有趣的功能是,即使在会议结束后,会议聊天中的所有参与者都可以使用Microsoft 白板功能。(Microsoft Whiteboard )
4. 会议现场转录(4. Live Transcription in Meetings)
当你在Teams会议中时,你可以在同一会议屏幕旁边以文本形式查看内容的实时转录。这是最好的 Microsoft Teams功能和好处之一,耳聋、听力有困难或有语言障碍的用户可以从中受益。此外,如果您参加的会议噪音太大,此功能将非常有用。会议中的实时转录(Live transcription in meetings)仅适用于Teams桌面版。
若要在Teams(Teams)会议中启用实时转录,请按照以下步骤操作。
1. 加入会议并单击更多操作图标(More actions icon ),如下所示。
2. 现在,从下拉列表中选择开始转录选项,如上所示。(Start transcription )
然后,会议的所有参与者都会收到会议内容正在转录的通知。您还可以更改转录的语言并注意,当您更改语言时,它会影响所有用户。
您可以如下所示切换转录语言。
英语(English)(美国)、英语(English)(加拿大(Canada))、英语(English)(印度(India))、英语(English)(英国)、英语(English)(澳大利亚(Australia))、英语(English)(新西兰(New Zealand))、阿拉伯语(Arabic)(阿拉伯联合酋长国(Arab Emirates))(预览(Preview))、阿拉伯语(Arabic)(沙特阿拉伯(Saudi Arabia))(预览(Preview))、中文(Chinese)(粤语(Cantonese)),中文(Chinese)(普通话(Mandarin)),丹麦语(Danish),荷兰语(Dutch)(比利时(Belgium)) (预览(Preview))、荷兰语(Dutch)(荷兰(Netherlands))、法语(加拿大(Canada))、法语(法国(France))、芬兰语(Finnish)(预览(Preview))、德语、印地语(Hindi)、意大利语(Italian)、日语(Japanese)、韩语(Korean)(预览(Preview))、挪威语、波兰语(预览(Preview))、葡萄牙语(Portuguese)(巴西(Brazil))、俄语(Russian)(预览(Preview)) )、西班牙语(墨西哥(Mexico))、西班牙语(西班牙(Spain))、瑞典语(Swedish)。
另请阅读:(Also Read:) 如何启用或禁用 Microsoft Teams 一键通(How to Enable or Disable Microsoft Teams Push to Talk)
5.斜线命令(5. Slash Commands)
您使用Teams多久了?您(Did)是否知道slash(/) commands 可以简化您的工作效率和与应用程序的互动?
是的。您可以切换到您最喜欢的频道、更改您的状态、搜索最近的消息或使用Slash命令导航到已保存的消息。
导航到搜索(Search )栏并在其中输入/。推荐命令列表如下所示。
以下是Teams(Teams)中最常用的一些命令。
Command |
Use |
/activity |
See someone’s activity. |
/available |
Set your status to available. |
/away |
Set your status to away. |
/busy |
Set your status to busy. |
/call |
Call a phone number or Teams contact. |
/dnd |
Set your status to do not disturb. |
/files |
See your recent files. |
/goto |
Go right to a team or channel. |
/help |
Get help with Teams. |
/join |
Join a team. |
/keys |
See keyboard shortcuts. |
/mentions |
See all your @mentions. |
/org |
See someone’s org chart. |
/saved |
See your saved messages. |
/testcall |
Check your call quality. |
/unread |
See all your unread activities. |
/whatsnew |
See what’s new in Teams. |
/who |
Ask Who a question about someone. |
/wiki |
Add a quick note. |
利用这些有趣的命令(interesting commands)并在一秒钟内调整Teams设置。
6. 聚焦人物(6. Spotlighting People)
在 Teams 中,您可以突出(spotlight)显示任何特定视频,以便在所有广泛的参与者中突出显示它们。如果您是会议主持人或演示者,您可以在会议中突出显示大约 7 个用户。如果您启用了大型画廊(Large gallery)或在一起模式(Together mode)视图,您将无法聚焦人物。以下是一些用于在Microsoft Teams会议中突出人员的说明。
1. 加入会议并前往参与者(Participants )列表。
2. 现在,右键单击要聚焦的用户名,然后选择Spotlight for everyone选项,如下所示。
3. 然后,再次单击Spotlight for everyone确认提示。(Spotlight for everyone )
现在,所选参与者的视频将在会议中突出显示。如果要结束聚光灯,请按照以下步骤操作。
4. 正如您之前所做的那样,右键单击参与者的姓名,然后选择退出聚光灯(Exit spotlight )选项,如下所示。
5. 最后,点击退出聚光灯(Exit spotlight )确认提示,如下图所示。
注意:(Note: )要聚焦您的视频,您可以右键单击您的视频并单击聚焦我(Spotlight me )选项或转到参与者列表,右键单击您的姓名并选择聚焦我(Spotlight me)选项。
另请阅读:(Also Read:) 如何访问 Microsoft Teams 管理中心登录(How to Access Microsoft Teams Admin Center Login)
7. 演讲者模式(7. Presenter mode)
演示者模式将使观众更加参与会议,因为演示者在演示文稿中也是可见的。而不是只共享窗口或屏幕,这个惊人的功能将成为会议的一个组成部分,它的突出(Standout )(删除您的背景并显示您的演示内容),并排(, Side-by-side )(您的提要和内容都将出现在旁边) ) 和记者(Reporter )(演示文稿将在您的肩膀右侧运行,就像您在电视报道中观看一样)模式。以下是在Teams中使用演示者模式的一些说明。
注意:(Note: )如果您使用的是 Web 应用程序或移动版Teams,演示者和演示文稿将分别显示。建议您使用应用程序的桌面版本来使用此演示者模式功能(Presenter Modes feature)。
1. 会议开始后,单击共享内容(Share content )选项,如图所示。
2. 确保您已打开相机并选择了您想要使用的演示者模式。(presenter mode )使用此模式时,您可以自定义背景、包含或排除计算机声音以及将控制权交给其他人。
3. 要退出共享,您可以单击演示工具栏中的停止演示(Stop presenting )选项。
8. 键盘快捷键 (8. Keyboard Shortcuts )
下面列出的键盘快捷键将帮助您在Teams上高效工作。这些Microsoft Teams会议功能对有远见问题的用户非常有帮助。以下是帮助您访问Teams的键盘快捷键列表,无需使用鼠标。
注意(Note):对于使用数字输入的快捷方式,请使用字母(Alphabets)键上方的数字键。
- 通用键盘快捷键(General Keyboard shortcuts)
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Show keyboard shortcuts |
Ctrl+Period (.) |
Ctrl+Period (.) |
Go to Search |
Ctrl+E |
Ctrl+E |
Show commands |
Ctrl+Slash (/) |
Ctrl+Slash (/) |
Open filter |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Goto |
Ctrl+G |
Ctrl+Shift+G |
Open apps flyout |
Ctrl+Accent (`) |
Ctrl+Accent (`) |
Start a new chat |
Ctrl+N |
Left Alt+N |
Open Settings |
Ctrl+Comma (,) |
Ctrl+Comma (,) |
Open Help |
F1 |
Ctrl+F1 |
Close |
Esc |
Esc |
Zoom in |
Ctrl+Equals sign ( = ) |
No shortcut |
Zoom out |
Ctrl+Minus sign (-) |
No shortcut |
Reset zoom level |
Ctrl+0 |
No shortcut |
- 导航键盘快捷键(Navigational Keyboard Shortcut)
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Open Activity |
Ctrl+1 |
Ctrl+Shift+1 |
Open Chat |
Ctrl+2 |
Ctrl+Shift+2 |
Open Teams |
Ctrl+3 |
Ctrl+Shift+3 |
Open Calendar |
Ctrl+4 |
Ctrl+Shift+4 |
Open Calls |
Ctrl+5 |
Ctrl+Shift+5 |
Open Files |
Ctrl+6 |
Ctrl+Shift+6 |
Go to the previous list item |
Left Alt+Up arrow key |
Left Alt+Up arrow key |
Go to the next list item |
Left Alt+Down arrow key |
Left Alt+Down arrow key |
Move selected team up |
Ctrl+Shift+Up arrow key |
No shortcut |
Move selected team down |
Ctrl+Shift+Down arrow key |
No shortcut |
Open the History menu |
Ctrl+Shift+H |
No shortcut |
Go to the previous section |
Ctrl+Shift+F6 |
Ctrl+Shift+F6 |
- 消息键盘快捷键(Messaging Keyboard Shortcuts)
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Go to the next section |
Ctrl+F6 |
Ctrl+F6 |
Start a new conversation |
Alt+Shift+C |
Alt+Shift+C |
Go to compose box |
Alt+Shift+C |
Alt+Shift+C |
Expand compose box |
Ctrl+Shift+X |
Ctrl+Shift+X |
Send (expanded compose box) |
Ctrl+Enter |
Ctrl+Enter |
Start new line |
Shift+Enter |
Shift+Enter |
Reply to a thread |
Alt+Shift+R |
Alt+Shift+R |
Mark as important |
Ctrl+Shift+I |
Ctrl+Shift+I |
Search current chat/channel messages |
Ctrl+F |
Ctrl+F |
- 与会议和通话相关的键盘快捷键(Meeting and Call related Keyboard Shortcuts)
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Accept video call |
Ctrl+Shift+A |
Ctrl+Shift+A |
Accept audio call |
Ctrl+Shift+S |
Ctrl+Shift+S |
Decline call |
Ctrl+Shift+D |
Ctrl+Shift+D |
Start audio call |
Ctrl+Shift+C |
Ctrl+Shift+C |
Start video call |
Ctrl+Shift+U |
Ctrl+Shift+U |
End audio call |
Ctrl+Shift+H |
No shortcut |
End video call |
Ctrl+Shift+H |
No shortcut |
Toggle mute |
Ctrl+Shift+M |
Ctrl+Shift+M |
Announce raised hands (screen reader) |
Ctrl+Shift+L |
Ctrl+Shift+L |
Raise or lower your hand |
Ctrl+Shift+K |
Ctrl+Shift+K |
Start screen share session |
Ctrl+Shift+E |
No shortcut |
Toggle video |
Ctrl+Shift+O |
No shortcut |
Filter current list |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Go to sharing toolbar |
Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar |
Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar |
Decline screen share |
Ctrl+Shift+D |
No shortcut |
Accept screen share |
Ctrl+Shift+A |
No shortcut |
Admit people from lobby notification |
Ctrl+Shift+Y |
No shortcut |
Toggle background blur |
Ctrl+Shift+P |
No shortcut |
Schedule a meeting |
Alt+Shift+N |
Alt+Shift+N |
Go to the current time |
Alt+Period (.) |
Alt+Period (.) |
Go to the previous day/week |
Ctrl+Alt+Left arrow key |
Ctrl+Alt+Left arrow key |
Go to next day/week |
Ctrl+Alt+Right arrow key |
Ctrl+Alt+Right arrow key |
View day |
Ctrl+Alt+1 |
Ctrl+Alt+1 |
View workweek |
Ctrl+Alt+2 |
Ctrl+Alt+2 |
View week |
Ctrl+Alt+3 |
Ctrl+Alt+3 |
Save/send a meeting request |
Ctrl+S |
Ctrl+S |
Join from meeting details |
Alt+Shift+J |
Alt+Shift+J |
Go to the suggested time |
Alt+Shift+S |
Alt+Shift+S |
那你还在等什么?使用这些棘手的快捷方式与您的朋友炫耀!(Show)
另请阅读:(Also Read:) 如何更改 Microsoft Teams 个人资料头像(How to Change Microsoft Teams Profile Avatar)
9. 在 Teams 中隐藏或显示消息(9. Hide or Show messages in Teams)
您无法删除频道或聊天的完整历史记录,但可以使用以下步骤在Teams中隐藏或显示任何频道或聊天。(Teams)当有人向其中发布消息时,聊天历史记录将恢复其活动,您可以在需要时恢复它。这是最简单的 Microsoft Teams功能和优势之一,可让您只专注于高优先级的聊天或频道。
1. 将鼠标悬停在您要隐藏的频道或聊天上,然后单击如图所示的三点图标。(three-dotted icon)
2. 现在,单击隐藏(Hide )选项,如上图所示。选定的聊天将从团队(Teams)列表中消失。
稍后,如果您改变主意并想取消隐藏聊天,请按照以下步骤操作。
3.使用搜索栏搜索隐藏的聊天,然后按Enter键(Enter key )将其打开。
4. 现在,如果您想查看它,请单击显示隐藏的聊天记录。(Show hidden chat history)此时,您将在左侧窗格的团队列表中看到聊天/频道。(Teams)
5. 现在,单击您的聊天/频道的三点图标,然后选择(three-dotted icon )取消隐藏(Unhide )选项,如图所示。
同样,您可以在需要时固定您最喜欢的聊天或将其静音。(pin your favorite chat or mute)
10.书签消息(10. Bookmark Messages)
Microsoft Teams会议功能(如书签(Bookmarking)消息)可帮助您节省查找任何文本的时间,而不是向上滚动整个聊天。即使该消息隐藏在漫长的对话历史中,您也可以通过保存它以供将来参考轻松找到它。以下是如何为消息添加书签。
1. 当您找到近期需要参考的消息时,将鼠标悬停在该消息上,然后单击三点图标(three-dotted icon)。
2. 然后,从列表中选择保存此消息(Save this message )选项,如图所示。
3. 要查看已保存的消息,请单击您的个人资料图片并选择已保存(Saved )的选项,如图所示。
4. 现在,所有已保存的对话将显示在左侧屏幕上。您可以轻松单击并访问它们。
(Start)使用此功能开始保存您的消息并轻松找到它们。
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In this section, we have compiled a list of Microsoft Teams meeting features that are hidden into your minds all these days. Read and share these with your friends who find them useful.
1. Share Email in Teams
Sometimes, there may be a need to copy contents from your Outlook mail and paste it into Teams chat. Copy and Paste would be a great choice preferred by many of you. Yet, this is unnecessary since the Microsoft Teams feature of sharing mail to Teams will be incredibly helpful. A built-in feature between Outlook and Teams lets you do this.
- This Microsoft Teams feature will be helpful to those organizations that deal with external customers, vendors, peers, and a lot more.
- You can send all those emails to a single Teams Channel and this avoids false-mistaken replies and keep mails clean.
- To share Outlook mails to Teams, you must have an Outlook add-in. This add-in is automatically installed on your PC for Teams users. Make a note that, this feature is not supported for mobile Teams users.
Follow these steps to share emails with Teams.
1. If you are using a desktop application, you can simply click on the Share to Teams button in the toolbar ribbon and if you are using a web application, click on the More actions … icon at the top right corner of the mail.
2. Here, type the name of a person, group, or channel you want to share the mail.
If you have any attachments in the mail, they are automatically included when you send them to Teams. If you want to remove them, you can uncheck the Include attachments option. Enjoy sending mails to Teams directly without using the normal conventional method.
2. Use Breakout Rooms
Make a note that, this Microsoft Teams feature is available only for meeting organizers of desktop app users (Microsoft and Mac). You cannot use this feature when you have more than 300 people in the meeting and when you create Teams Breakout Rooms before meetings, you cannot add more than 300 people.
- When you are in a Breakout room, you cannot add people to the meeting from the participant’s panel, cannot add additional people to the chat, cannot use the Call me feature, and cannot copy the Join meeting contents. Otherwise, you can enjoy all other features of chatting and exchanging information.
- You can create Teams Breakout Rooms when you are initiating a meeting or in the middle of your meeting to allow a smaller group of participants to discuss and collaborate.
- You can create around 50 Teams Breakout Rooms for a single meeting. Thus, you can split users in meeting under several groups to discuss any specific/ general content of the meeting.
If you are the organizer/ presenter of the meeting, you can create Breakout Rooms in Teams by following the below-mentioned steps.
1. As usual, create a meeting invite and start the meeting.
2. Now, click on the Breakout rooms option as highlighted below.
3. In the next window, you can choose the number of rooms you want to create from the drop-down menu, and finally, click on Create rooms as shown.
After creating Breakout rooms, you can rename them and manually or automatically assign participants to them. That’s it. As a Breakout Room manager, you can add and delete rooms, manage participants in the room, join any rooms, exit, and open rooms, assign time limits for rooms, send announcements, and recreate rooms if necessary. If you cannot manage Breakout rooms, you can also assign a participant or presenter to manage the same.
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3. Virtual Whiteboard
Microsoft Teams has an association with Microsoft Whiteboard through which you can share your opinion by drawing, writing, and sketching together in a meeting. This Whiteboard collaboration is available to all participants in the meeting. To use Whiteboard in Teams meet, ensure you have Microsoft Whiteboard on your device.
You can write by dragging a letter, adding text, adding a note, can add a Library image, Bing image, or Camera image, pasting a document, adding a PDF/Word/PowerPoint document, and a lot more features that will amuse you a lot. You can make your Whiteboard visible to all the participants by following the below-mentioned steps.
1. After launching or joining a meeting, click on the Open share tray icon as shown below.
2. Now, on the right side, click on Microsoft Whiteboard as depicted.
Now, Microsoft Whiteboard loads on the screen, and once done, the screen appears as shown below.
Now, the participants of the meeting can enjoy inking their thoughts using this amazing Microsoft Teams feature. Attendees who belong to the same tenant can enjoy collaborating on Whiteboard whereas strangers, federated, or anonymous users cannot do so. Make a note that, when you use Whiteboard for sharing the content in a Teams meeting that is being recorded, this will not be part of the recording. This feature is in the developmental stage and Microsoft will announce you as soon as the changes are successful.
The interesting feature is that the Microsoft Whiteboard feature is available for all the participants in the meeting chat, even after the meeting has ended.
4. Live Transcription in Meetings
When you are in Teams meeting, you can see live transcriptions of the content in the form of text that appear alongside the same meeting screen. This is one of the best Microsoft Teams features and benefits from which users who are deaf or have difficulties in hearing or who have language barriers. Also, if you are attending a meeting that has too much noise, this feature will be much useful. Live transcription in meetings is available only for the desktop version of Teams.
To enable Live transcription in Teams meetings, follow the below-mentioned steps.
1. Join the meeting and click on the More actions icon as shown below.
2. Now, select the Start transcription option from the drop-down list as shown above.
Then, all the participants in the meeting will receive a notification that the contents of the meeting are being transcript. You can also change the language of transcription and make a note that, when you change the language, it affects all users.
You can switch the transcription language as listed below.
English (US), English (Canada), English (India), English (UK), English (Australia), English (New Zealand), Arabic (Arab Emirates) (Preview), Arabic (Saudi Arabia) (Preview), Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch (Belgium) (Preview), Dutch (Netherlands), French (Canada), French (France), Finnish (Preview), German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Preview), Norwegian, Polish (Preview), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Preview), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish.
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5. Slash Commands
How long you have been using Teams? Did you know slash(/) commands could simplify your productivity and engagement with the app?
Yes. You can switch to your favorite channel, change your status, search for the recent message or navigate to saved messages using Slash commands.
Navigate to the Search bar and type / in it. A list of recommended commands will be shown as follows.
Here are a few most commonly used commands in Teams.
Command |
Use |
/activity |
See someone’s activity. |
/available |
Set your status to available. |
/away |
Set your status to away. |
/busy |
Set your status to busy. |
/call |
Call a phone number or Teams contact. |
/dnd |
Set your status to do not disturb. |
/files |
See your recent files. |
/goto |
Go right to a team or channel. |
/help |
Get help with Teams. |
/join |
Join a team. |
/keys |
See keyboard shortcuts. |
/mentions |
See all your @mentions. |
/org |
See someone’s org chart. |
/saved |
See your saved messages. |
/testcall |
Check your call quality. |
/unread |
See all your unread activities. |
/whatsnew |
See what’s new in Teams. |
/who |
Ask Who a question about someone. |
/wiki |
Add a quick note. |
Make use of these interesting commands and tweak Teams settings within a second.
6. Spotlighting People
In Teams, you can spotlight any particular videos to highlight them among all the wide scale of participants. If you are the meeting host or presenter, you can spotlight around 7 users in the meeting. You cannot spotlight people if you have enabled Large gallery or Together mode view. Here are a few instructions to spotlight people in Microsoft Teams meetings.
1. Join the meeting and head towards the Participants list.
2. Now, right-click on the user’s name whom you want to spotlight and select the Spotlight for everyone option as shown below.
3. Then, confirm the prompt by clicking on Spotlight for everyone again.
Now, the selected participant’s video will be spotlighted in the meeting. If you want to end spotlighting, follow the below-mentioned steps.
4. As you did earlier, right-click on the name of the participant and now select the Exit spotlight option as shown below.
5. Finally, confirm the prompt by clicking on Exit spotlight as shown below.
Note: To spotlight your video, you can right-click on your video and click on Spotlight me option or go to the participant’s list, right-click on your name and select the Spotlight me option.
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7. Presenter mode
The presenter mode will keep the audience more engaged towards the meeting since the presenter is also visible in the presentation. Rather than sharing only the window or screen, this amazing feature will become an integral part of the meeting with its Standout (deletes your background and shows your content of presentation), Side-by-side (Both your feed and content will appear next aside), and Reporter ( the presentation will run to the right of your shoulder as if you watch it on TV reports) modes. Here are a few instructions to use the presenter mode in Teams.
Note: If you are using the web app or mobile version of Teams, the presenter and the presentation will appear separately. You are advised to use the desktop version of the app to make use of this Presenter Modes feature.
1. Once the meeting has started, click on the Share content option as shown.
2. Make sure you have turned on your camera and selected the presenter mode you would like to use. You can customize your background, include or exclude computer sounds and give control to others when you are using this mode.
3. To exit sharing, you can click on Stop presenting option in the presenting toolbar.
8. Keyboard Shortcuts
The below-listed keyboard shortcuts will help you work efficiently on Teams. These Microsoft Teams meeting features are very helpful to users with visionary problems. Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts that will help you, access Teams, without using a mouse.
Note: For shortcuts that uses numerical input use the numbers keys above the Alphabets keys.
- General Keyboard shortcuts
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Show keyboard shortcuts |
Ctrl+Period (.) |
Ctrl+Period (.) |
Go to Search |
Ctrl+E |
Ctrl+E |
Show commands |
Ctrl+Slash (/) |
Ctrl+Slash (/) |
Open filter |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Goto |
Ctrl+G |
Ctrl+Shift+G |
Open apps flyout |
Ctrl+Accent (`) |
Ctrl+Accent (`) |
Start a new chat |
Ctrl+N |
Left Alt+N |
Open Settings |
Ctrl+Comma (,) |
Ctrl+Comma (,) |
Open Help |
F1 |
Ctrl+F1 |
Close |
Esc |
Esc |
Zoom in |
Ctrl+Equals sign ( = ) |
No shortcut |
Zoom out |
Ctrl+Minus sign (-) |
No shortcut |
Reset zoom level |
Ctrl+0 |
No shortcut |
- Navigational Keyboard Shortcut
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Open Activity |
Ctrl+1 |
Ctrl+Shift+1 |
Open Chat |
Ctrl+2 |
Ctrl+Shift+2 |
Open Teams |
Ctrl+3 |
Ctrl+Shift+3 |
Open Calendar |
Ctrl+4 |
Ctrl+Shift+4 |
Open Calls |
Ctrl+5 |
Ctrl+Shift+5 |
Open Files |
Ctrl+6 |
Ctrl+Shift+6 |
Go to the previous list item |
Left Alt+Up arrow key |
Left Alt+Up arrow key |
Go to the next list item |
Left Alt+Down arrow key |
Left Alt+Down arrow key |
Move selected team up |
Ctrl+Shift+Up arrow key |
No shortcut |
Move selected team down |
Ctrl+Shift+Down arrow key |
No shortcut |
Open the History menu |
Ctrl+Shift+H |
No shortcut |
Go to the previous section |
Ctrl+Shift+F6 |
Ctrl+Shift+F6 |
- Messaging Keyboard Shortcuts
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Go to the next section |
Ctrl+F6 |
Ctrl+F6 |
Start a new conversation |
Alt+Shift+C |
Alt+Shift+C |
Go to compose box |
Alt+Shift+C |
Alt+Shift+C |
Expand compose box |
Ctrl+Shift+X |
Ctrl+Shift+X |
Send (expanded compose box) |
Ctrl+Enter |
Ctrl+Enter |
Start new line |
Shift+Enter |
Shift+Enter |
Reply to a thread |
Alt+Shift+R |
Alt+Shift+R |
Mark as important |
Ctrl+Shift+I |
Ctrl+Shift+I |
Search current chat/channel messages |
Ctrl+F |
Ctrl+F |
- Meeting and Call related Keyboard Shortcuts
Task |
Desktop app |
Web app |
Accept video call |
Ctrl+Shift+A |
Ctrl+Shift+A |
Accept audio call |
Ctrl+Shift+S |
Ctrl+Shift+S |
Decline call |
Ctrl+Shift+D |
Ctrl+Shift+D |
Start audio call |
Ctrl+Shift+C |
Ctrl+Shift+C |
Start video call |
Ctrl+Shift+U |
Ctrl+Shift+U |
End audio call |
Ctrl+Shift+H |
No shortcut |
End video call |
Ctrl+Shift+H |
No shortcut |
Toggle mute |
Ctrl+Shift+M |
Ctrl+Shift+M |
Announce raised hands (screen reader) |
Ctrl+Shift+L |
Ctrl+Shift+L |
Raise or lower your hand |
Ctrl+Shift+K |
Ctrl+Shift+K |
Start screen share session |
Ctrl+Shift+E |
No shortcut |
Toggle video |
Ctrl+Shift+O |
No shortcut |
Filter current list |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Go to sharing toolbar |
Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar |
Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar |
Decline screen share |
Ctrl+Shift+D |
No shortcut |
Accept screen share |
Ctrl+Shift+A |
No shortcut |
Admit people from lobby notification |
Ctrl+Shift+Y |
No shortcut |
Toggle background blur |
Ctrl+Shift+P |
No shortcut |
Schedule a meeting |
Alt+Shift+N |
Alt+Shift+N |
Go to the current time |
Alt+Period (.) |
Alt+Period (.) |
Go to the previous day/week |
Ctrl+Alt+Left arrow key |
Ctrl+Alt+Left arrow key |
Go to next day/week |
Ctrl+Alt+Right arrow key |
Ctrl+Alt+Right arrow key |
View day |
Ctrl+Alt+1 |
Ctrl+Alt+1 |
View workweek |
Ctrl+Alt+2 |
Ctrl+Alt+2 |
View week |
Ctrl+Alt+3 |
Ctrl+Alt+3 |
Save/send a meeting request |
Ctrl+S |
Ctrl+S |
Join from meeting details |
Alt+Shift+J |
Alt+Shift+J |
Go to the suggested time |
Alt+Shift+S |
Alt+Shift+S |
So, what are you waiting for? Show off with your friends with these tricky shortcuts!
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9. Hide or Show messages in Teams
You cannot delete the complete history of a channel or chat, yet you can hide or show any channel or chat in Teams by using the following steps. The chat history will resume its activity when one posts a message into it and you can resume it whenever needed. This is one of the simplest Microsoft Teams features and benefits that keeps you focused only on chats or channels that are a high priority.
1. Hover over the channel or chat that you want to hide and click on the three-dotted icon as shown.
2. Now, click on the Hide option as shown above. The selected chat will disappear from the Teams list.
Later, if you change your mind and want to unhide the chats, follow the below-mentioned steps.
3. Search for the hidden chat using the search bar and hit Enter key to open it.
4. Now, click on Show hidden chat history if you want to view it. By this time, you will see the chat/channel in the Teams list on the left pane.
5. Now, click on the three-dotted icon of your chat/channel and select the Unhide option as shown.
Likewise, you can pin your favorite chat or mute it whenever needed.
10. Bookmark Messages
Microsoft Teams meeting features like Bookmarking messages help you save your time to find any text instead of scrolling up the whole chat. Even though the message is buried down in the long history of conversation, you can easily find it by saving it for future reference. Here is how to bookmark a message.
1. When you find any message that is needed for reference in the near future, hover over the message and click on the three-dotted icon.
2. Then, select the Save this message option from the list as shown.
3. To view the saved messages, click on your profile picture and select the Saved option as depicted.
4. Now, all the saved conversations will be displayed on the left screen. You can click and access them easily.
Start saving your messages and find them easily by using this feature.
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