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Larilyn’s Tip of the Week: Microsoft Teams – Navigation
I currently feel like a much bigger deal than I actually am. It’s Vlogger Syndrome. Trust me.
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Today, I am announcing the start of a new Tip of the Week Series!
So many of our clients are starting to use Microsoft Teams for the first time, so I will be focusing on Teams specific tips for several newsletters.
Let’s get this series started!
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Today I’m starting with a simple navigation tip. And let’s not lie, I’ve used Teams for over a year now, and I just learned this….um…..this week.
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I have a problem. If it weren’t for the fact that my husband has actual diagnosed OCD, I might think I had OCD myself. However, I think I just have a weird quirk.
I don’t like alert badges. Or alert icons. Or alert bubbles. I want them gone. I want them cleared. I can’t stand to have them on my phone.
Just ask Scott. The fact that he has thousands of unread emails that leave a little red bubble over his email app? Gives me nightmares.
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The same quirk applies to alerts in Teams. I like to go through and click through every alert so that none of them are bold or alerting anymore. And usually I am able to take the time to read through them and process what is said and needs to be done.
Every once in awhile, I get distracted or pulled away to another task or my phone rings. And sometimes I then navigate to another post or thread in Teams.
However, I have learned that Teams has back and forward navigation buttons just like your internet browser!
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Up there in the beautiful top left corner, you will see two arrows. They aren’t super obvious and seem pretty easy to miss – or maybe that’s just me.
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Clicking back (the left arrow) will take you to a previous thread or conversation. Clicking forward (the right arrow) will take you forward if you’ve already clicked back. Right clicking on either will give you a drop down menu of many that you can go back or forward to.
This is genius. This way I don’t have to remember what I need to go back to – I can just use the navigation buttons to make Teams go back to where I came from!
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Tune in next time for my next Teams Tip of the Week!
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