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Top 10 keyboard shortcuts to make you a Microsoft Teams super user

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May 13, 2020
With more people on Teams than ever, you may be wondering how to become an even bigger super user. We asked the Teams team to share their favorite keyboard shortcuts that help them stay efficient. Ch...
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Jun 12, 2020

A lot of these shortcuts don't work for me ... ALt+Shift+C does not go to the Compose box, neither does Ctrl+Shift+X expand it. Alt+Shift+R does not reply to a thread ... very disappointing. Especially now that Microsoft is rolling out the new behavior that the compose box opens expanded on a new conversation, we have people asking how to quickly collapse it again.

 

One that does work and that is really useful is the up arrow to edit the last message. Finding the ... to get to the edit button is often a nightmare and very slow.