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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By : João Ferreira
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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By: João Ferreira

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is a platform for unified communication in modern workplaces. It not only enables effective communication, but also helps you manage your resources through its integration with various Microsoft Office 365 services. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the platform, getting you up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to use Teams in the best possible way. Starting with the basic concepts that will help you collaborate on Teams, this book takes you through expert techniques for creating and managing teams. A dedicated section also features industry practices to help enhance collaboration in modern workplaces. In later chapters, you’ll explore Microsoft services such as SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Automate, and learn how they interact with Microsoft Teams. You’ll also get to grips with dealing with permissions and security issues in managing private and public teams and channels. Along the way, you’ll discover practical scenarios that will help you improve the collaboration in your organization and increase productivity by using Teams features. By the end of this book, you’ll have hands-on experience of using Microsoft Teams, along with the skills you need to improve the way people collaborate in your organization.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Understanding message options

Each message posted in the chat app has a set of options available that you can use to manage, react to, or categorize each message. To access the message options, you will need to do the following:

  1. Hover your mouse over the message, wait for the three dots () to appear, and then click on it.
  2. A contextual menu will appear, as in the following screenshot, and you will be able to select a message option:

Figure 3.23: Message options

The contextual menu will be different for messages sent by you than for the one displayed on messages you receive. The available options are detailed in the following sections.

Saving Messages

Save this message allows you to save a message to your Saved list. A messaged that is saved by you is marked with a bookmark icon and is added to the Saved list, which means you will be able to later locate it faster from a central location.

To access your saved messages, do...