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Stop Wasting Time on Teams: 3 Additional Hacks for Fixes You Need

Here’s an unvarnished truth: if you’re still clicking around Teams like it’s 2010, you’re wasting time. Stop complaining and learn these three hacks your future self will thank you.

NOTE: No, I’m not becoming a Microsoft Teams blogger, it’s just these along with a few other prospective features can help when stuck dealing with Microsoft Teams. Since I have to be tortured with such an app, I’m just offering this meager help via blog entries. Otherwise, you can rest assured I’ll be back to regularly scheduled software development and related technical topics very soon!

1 >> Stop Clicking >> Use Slash Commands & Keyboard Shortcuts

  • What to do: Hit Ctrl + E (Win) or ⌘ + E (Mac) to jump to the command bar (yeah, there’s a command line, also see docs), then type / and a command:
    • /dnd to set Do Not Disturb
    • /call [name] to ring someone immediately
    • /files to see your recent docs
  • Plus: Memorize the basics:
    • Ctrl + Shift + M to mute/unmute
    • Ctrl + Shift + O to toggle your camera
    • Ctrl + N to start a new chat
  • Why it matters: Teams is famously sluggish, stop letting the UI slow you down. If you can’t spare ten minutes to learn these, fine then keep clicking.
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The Terror of Microsoft Teams & Workarounds

If you’ve used Microsoft Teams, you’ve had issues and likely have spent hours working through things that you shouldn’t have had to deal with. I have endeavored to help others work their way through mitigating Teams calamities. I’ve put together this short list of my own workarounds.

Here are three things Teams consistently screws up—and what you can do if you don’t want to keep banging your head against the wall:

1) Messages Lag & Drop in the Web App

What’s happening: The browser version of Teams is a resource-heavy single-page app. All that JavaScript, caching and real-time syncing means your chat can stall, duplicate, or even fail to show new messages for minutes.

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