Top 4 essential Microsoft Teams tools you just cant do without

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app built for hybrid work and used by over 270 million people each month. With the hybrid work atmosphere, MS Teams provides seamless and efficient meeting experience. Here are the best new additions to MS Teams that can make your work experience even better.

Word Cloud Poll for Teams meeting- Now, in Microsoft Forms poll, there is a new option for engaging with your attendees – Word Cloud Poll. With this feature, you can collect attendees' open-ended responses before, during, or after a meeting, and the results will be automatically aggregated and displayed as a word cloud. (Microsoft )

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1/4 Word Cloud Poll for Teams meeting- Now, in Microsoft Forms poll, there is a new option for engaging with your attendees – Word Cloud Poll. With this feature, you can collect attendees' open-ended responses before, during, or after a meeting, and the results will be automatically aggregated and displayed as a word cloud. (Microsoft )

Mute Notifications- You can now mute notifications during meetings, which will help you focus better. You can choose to mute notifications for all meetings or per meeting basis. To turn off notifications during all meetings, go to settings -> notifications-> meetings and calls and toggle the Mute Notifications during meeting button. To turn off notifications during a specific meeting, click on the ellipsis and choose mute/allow notifications. (Flickr)

2/4 Mute Notifications- You can now mute notifications during meetings, which will help you focus better. You can choose to mute notifications for all meetings or per meeting basis. To turn off notifications during all meetings, go to settings -> notifications-> meetings and calls and toggle the Mute Notifications during meeting button. To turn off notifications during a specific meeting, click on the ellipsis and choose mute/allow notifications. (Flickr)

Schedule messages- People often work in distributed teams, therefore, to help you with scheduling messages, quickly check your colleague’s time zone, right from their contact card, enabling you to time your messages to get faster responses, while being considerate of your colleagues’ schedule. (Microsoft)

3/4 Schedule messages- People often work in distributed teams, therefore, to help you with scheduling messages, quickly check your colleague’s time zone, right from their contact card, enabling you to time your messages to get faster responses, while being considerate of your colleagues’ schedule. (Microsoft)

Customize Chat Density- Whether you want to optimize to see more text at once or read less text at a more comfortable level, Teams lets you customize the chat density to suit your needs. Click on ‘settings’ -> ‘general’ and choose the right spacing for you. Chat density feature lets you customize the number of chat messages you see on the screen with different settings. (Microsoft)

4/4 Customize Chat Density- Whether you want to optimize to see more text at once or read less text at a more comfortable level, Teams lets you customize the chat density to suit your needs. Click on ‘settings’ -> ‘general’ and choose the right spacing for you. Chat density feature lets you customize the number of chat messages you see on the screen with different settings. (Microsoft)