So, if your team relies primarily on these apps, you can integrate them with a few simple clicks. One of the USPs of Teams is the ability to integrate the entire suite of Office 365 apps on the platform. You will now have a text window pop-up, create and format your message here, and then hit the Send button to send your message across. To compose a Rich Text message, open the channel you want you to want to send the message and hit the “ A” button on the bottom left. This is where Rich Text Editing comes into play and brings along support for things like fonts, annotations, pictures, and other custom formatting options. Create rich-text messagesĪt times, you need more control over your text to get your messages across more effectively. You can view your bookmarked messages by typing “ /saved” in the search box.
To bookmark a message, head to the conversation, and tap bookmark icon next to it. While unread messages can come in handy to keep yourself reminded of the tasks you need to accomplish, bookmarking messages can help you save important messages or content that you need to refer to frequently. In much the same way as you mark messages in a conversation as unread to revisit at a later time, you can also bookmark texts, images, or some other content in a conversation to check them out later. You can find these messages by typing “ /unread” in the search box. Now, from the pop-up, select Mark as unread. For marking a message as unread, head to the conversation with the message you want to mark as unread, and tap the ellipsis (three-dot) button next to it. To help yourself ending up in such situations, you can mark the important messages on priority as unread so that you can revisit them at a later time. And it can quickly turn from something useful to a swarm of populated messages. While channels allow you to have discussions with your teammates on various developments, things can sometimes get out of hand if there are a large number of members in a channel. To mark a Team or Channel as a favorite, open it, tap the ellipsis button, and select Favorite. For such instances, you can simply mark a Team or a Channel as a favorite, which can then be found in the Favorites section right on top on the left window. If you happen to be working on more than one project at a time, it can be confusing at times to keep up with the advancements on a particular Team that requires your utmost attention. Once done, you can revert to the original text by following the same process. You should now see the text translated to your preferred language. To translate a message to your preferred language, tap the ellipsis (three-dot) button next to the text in the conversation, and select Translate. Translate conversationsįor those, who don’t have English as their native language, but their work primarily revolves around it, Microsoft Teams has you covered with the translation feature. For this, tap the ellipsis (three-dot) button next to your message and select Immersive Reader from the options. Besides office settings, the utility can also be helpful in teaching students with dyslexia and dysgraphia, as it makes it easier to comprehend text by breaking it text down into different parts of speech for easier understanding. Further, it also gives you accessibility options that show the text in different font sizes, colors, and spacing. Luckily, Microsoft’s Immersive Reader can save you some time by reading out the text at different speeds, which you can change per your liking. When you have to go through a lot of text back-and-forth between different conversations, it can sometimes be quite a tedious task.
For this, while you are on a meeting, hit the ellipsis (three-dot) button to unveil more actions, and select Blur My Background. To set it as your background, select it and hit the Apply button.įurthermore, besides changing your background, you can also activate the Background Blur functionality during video conference meetings to hide your background. From here, select a background and hit the Preview button to view it with your settings.
You will see the Background settings menu on the right-hand side with a list of default backgrounds. To add a background, during a video call, hit the ellipsis (three-dot) button and select Show background effects. However, as of now, Microsoft Teams only supports the default backgrounds. As it turns out, you can change your background during a meeting to hide your messy surroundings in the background. But with Teams, that shouldn’t be a concern. If you are working from home, it is possible that not every corner in your home may be suitable for video calls.