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Personalize your plans with custom backgrounds

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NancyatMSFT
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Mar 06, 2025
We’re excited to announce that you can now use custom backgrounds for your basic plans in both Planner in Microsoft Teams and Planner for the web. This addition was a top feature request when we laun...
A screenshot of Planner shows the Grid view of a plan. The Plan details pane is open to the right with different background options.
Published Mar 06, 2025
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Chandler-AGI
Copper Contributor
May 20, 2025

Suggested ≠ Custom

While the suggestions can be interesting and better than nothing, why on earth wouldn't you let us add our own background image that we think best fits our own plan?  If i rename a plan to describe the background i want, i can find something that works I guess.  Then, change the plan name back to what it should be without clicking the new suggested images... kind of silly exercise?

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Ben Spear
Copper Contributor
Sep 09, 2025

I second this ✋