Microsoft Teams Cheatsheet

Microsoft Teams is a communication tool for the workplace with features of chat, call and meetings with audio and video.

Keyboard shortcuts

Here are some keyboard shortcuts I like to use in the Meeting app:

• Ctrl + Shift + M: Toggle mute and unmute.
• Ctrl + Shift + O: Toggle camera on and off.
• Ctrl + Shift + E: Share content.

Features

• Noise suppression: This is a great feature that removes all non-speech sound originating at your end when you speak. To set this, click on your profile in top-right corner and Settings -> Devices -> Noise Suppression. The level is set to Auto by default, but with a noisy home I turn it to High, even though I have a headset with a noise-canceling mic. This feature supposedly uses the CPU’s AVX2 instructions, but I noticed no performance degradation while this feature is enabled.

• Record meeting: If you are the creator of the meeting in Outlook, then you can enable the meeting to be automatically recorded. To do this:

  • Right-click on the meeting in the calendar and choose Edit (occurence or series).
  • This shows the meeting information, here choose … and then Meeting Options.
  • This opens a dialog in the browser which shows a lot of options for the meeting. Here enable the Record automatically option and click Save at the bottom.