How to open Teams Meeting Chat

This one Microsoft Teams Trick seems not known by everyone. You can open a Teams Meeting Chat without being in the Meeting and even if the Meeting Chat wasn't used during the meeting.

Microsoft Teams Microlearning: Open Meeting Chat (after the meeting)

I share here quite a useful trick I use quite a lot.

After a Teams meeting, sometimes I want to post some updates or questions in the Meeting Chat portion (instead of sending an Email via Reply to all that could grow exponentially and also I won't be able to find easily.)

The common way would be to look in the Chat portion in Teams and search for the meeting chat there.

The search is not so convenient. Moreover there are some cases where the chat was not used and hence isn't available there.

The quicker way I recommend is to look for the meeting in your Calendar in Teams (not in Outlook: the option isn't available - only Join.)

There you will find by right-mouse clicking on the meeting the option to open the Teams Meeting Chat:

It is called: "Chat with participants" and will open the meeting chat. (without having you to join the meeting)

Outlook Microlearning: Display Week Number

 This is how to display Week Number in your Outlook Client Calendar View:

Outlook: Hide Completed Emails in Inbox

When I am done with an email and flag it as Done, I like to have it removed from my Inbox. I share how to do this automatically in Microsoft Outlook.

How to create a Public location in your OneDrive

I share in this post how you can open a folder in your OneDrive for access to all your colleagues and easily share files without caring about creating shared links.

Microsoft Teams: Multiple Windows

Microsoft Teams keeps making improvements but it isn't still close handling multiple windows as you would expect in state-of-the-art tools (even Skype was better). Pop out chat came recently and also Separate Meeting Windows with the New Meeting Experience.

Still, one common pain/ wish is to be able to monitor the meeting chat on another screen/ window while attending the meeting or even presenting in a meeting. Or view the attendees' video while presenting.

As common workaround for this, I use the trick to open Teams in the browser. (Another workaround to open a second client instance is explained in this other post.)

Outlook: Flag for recipients

Did you know you could also Flag an email in Outlook for the recipients?

This is pretty handy if you send per Email a Task to be executed till a deadline.

This is in fact a bit hidden.