Certain Microsoft Teams’ tips stand it out of its competition. Even if you are using the Teams for a long time, you may be missing out on certain features that can take your experience to the next level.

Use of Customized Virtual Background

In today’s era, it doesn’t matter where you are? Video Conferencing can bring you all together. But there is one problem with joining a video conferencing that your environment may be a mess and a distracting one.

But there’s good news, Microsoft Teams have something for you. You can blur your background and help you not voiding your privacy.

Just Tap on “Blur My Background” or else you may add custom backgrounds like you may go professional just by adding a company Logo behind, or a complete virtual office background. This feature of Virtual Background has been introduced in April, 2020 by Microsoft Teams. You may experience the real fun while staying at home.

No Language barrier between your Team

You may have your co-workers in multiple locations. There is a possibility that many of them are in other countries as well. As, today there are no limits to work from any location of the world. You may hire talent from any part of the world. Now if you have hired employees from different regions of the world, there may be a language barrier. But this barrier has been covered by the Teams through “Inline Message Translation”. It keeps all the participants on the one page and lets them communicate in their preferred language.

Communicate with external people on different platforms and stay at Teams

You may be communicating with the people who are out of your organization. They could be clients, customers, or contractors. They may not be using the Microsoft Teams. You cannot be so unprofessional by moving out of the Teams every time. If they are using Slack or Cisco WebEx Teams, then congratulations, Mio has solved this problem by creating a universal Channel with Slack or WebEx Teams. You can send messages, GIFs, emojis, etc to anyone and stay at Microsoft Teams.

Real-Time captions

You can always translate your message while sending your team messages. But what, if you are on a video chat and you have no idea how to communicate with him in his language. There is an option by, “Translate to” menu, you can add captions for a particular language. Even you will be able to download the meeting transcript later.

@mention Filter

Whenever you need a response from a specific person, you need not to scroll through the hundreds of contacts. This “@mention filtration can save you lots of time and effort. You just need to type the username of that particular person you want to ask or communicate.

Following the Teams channels to cut down unnecessary information

You may have to respond to calls and e-mails and at the same time managing with different tools, packages, and even people too. Just follow the channel that matters to you the most. It will help you to eliminate the unnecessary information to drag your time to waste.

Fun with GIFs

Many of the organizations keep finding solutions for productivity and high efficiency. They do not focus to build a company culture with the help of communication tools. GIF’s could prove to be a great tool to increase the bonding between users. The user just needs to enter a keyword to search the desired GIF.

Data Loss Prevention

The Microsoft Teams features the Data Loss Prevention through OneDrive, It is extremely useful in detecting sensitive information in the chat message.

Intelligent capture

Suppose If you are writing some content on a whiteboard and discussing the session. Microsoft Teams offers “Intelligent Capture” and “Content Camera”. It captures and can resize the image of your whiteboard images. So, now even if you are standing in front of your board and content, Teams will show the content whatever I is written behind you.