Activity menu

The Activity menu contains information about events within the teams and channels of which you are a member. Here you can see how many times you have been mentioned in those teams and channels, responses to your posts, posts you liked, information that you have been added to the team or became a team owner, suggested and trending posts. This is a convenient place to find out what’s new if you haven’t used Microsoft Teams for a while …

Teams user interface

After you sign up for Microsoft Teams, either by launching a desktop application or choosing to use an Internet browser, a window will open in which you can view past activities, talk to other members one-on-one or in a group, have team conversations, organize or participate in meetings and webminars, use applications, open, download or add files … In this post you will learn how to easily navigate multitude of ​​options offered by Teams.

Welcome to MS Teams!

Microsoft Teams is a cloud service that allows you to connect employees within the organization to collaborate on joint projects, communicate through conversation or video calls, file sharing and more. Although it is a service that can be accessed via an Internet browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari), there is the possibility of downloading a Windows/Mac desktop application or an application for mobile platforms (Android, iOS).

Birthday cake

“Birthday Cake” is a way of combining Stacked Column Chart, shapes and images to, with a little extra formatting, get a graphic report reminiscent of a birthday cake with candles. It can be used e.g. to show the growth of income or profit of the company over a period of several years. This kind of chart is very easy to make, so if you want to attract the attention of bosses and colleagues, pay attention and follow the steps shown.

Customizing source table

Before you decide to create a pivot table, ask yourself: do you really need it? This report groups and aggregates data (summation, averaging, counting, etc.) and you may have already done so in the source table; maybe it is, in itself, a report? If you do decide to take this step, you will need to adjust it so that the pivot table can process the data, because it requires that the records be in rows.