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Access Team Files during conference call
Hi GerardTromp - are you using the free version of Teams or as part of Office 365? I can speak to the paid version:
- While on your conference call, you should still be able to click on the Teams icon in the left pane, navigate to your Team and then click on Files
- If you have joined via the desktop app, you could also log into Teams in your browser and access everything
- You can sync the files from your Team so you can access all files via your File Explorer regardless of being on a call.
Hope that helps!
Hi Kelly_Edinger,
I was in the desktop application and the left sidebar was greyed out and unresponsive (in the paid-for institutional Teams). Hence my question.
I find it odd that I would have to open a browser version to be able to achieve what I should be able to do in the application itself. Why not allow another window (if necessary disable another teleconference in the second window). Better yet allow one to simply access the files.
Anyway, thanks for the tip and yes I recognize the workaround, and notice that the web version does not grey out the waffle and side-bar.
I will check again tomorrow on another meeting to see if it was a feature of the desktop application or a bug.
Hi GerardTromp - that should just be a bug. Even though the icons appear grayed out, you should still be able to click on them to navigate around Teams even while in a call. Hope it gets resolved for you quickly!
I have a related question. I can get to the Teams files, but I cannot share it during the videoconference without first downloading it to my computer and then sharing the screen. Is there a way of opening a file within Teams and then sharing it on the screen with the other participants on the videoconference?
Hi YKHAYKIN - when you click on the Files tab and then click on the document, it should display in Teams and you can share your desktop. Is the file stored in a Team already? or in your OneDrive or..?
- If I open the file in Teams, Teams does not let me share the screen with the file open. I have to download it and open it in one of the office app, eg excel, to be able to share the screen. It does not make a lot of sense from workflow perspective. I would love to have the file in Teams, open it within teams and then share the screen with the file open without having to download the file first
