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Teams and “@-Less” Mentions
Teams now supports @-less mentions, meaning that the clients are intelligent enough to monitor user input for names of team members. If a name is found, Teams suggests making it a mention. The only thing you’ve got to remember is to capitalize the first letter of a name as otherwise Teams regards a name as just another word.
https://office365itpros.com/2019/07/11/teams-at-less-mentions/
TonyRedmond looking forward to test this new feature. As I am working and living in germany it probably could be hard for Teams to tell if I am writing a name or just a noun as we write a noun with a capital letter too.
You'll be fine. Teams keeps a cache of member names and checks capitalized words against that. I guess there's a possibility that someone's first name is the same as a noun and Teams could confuse a capitalized noun with a member name, but I don't think that you should worry about it.
Did this feature get implimented? It doesn't seem to be active on our system and I can't find any mention of it in the help or other MS forums.
ChemistGuy It was implemented, but I think that it is currently disabled to reduce the strain on the service.
Ahh. Thanks, good to know, appreciate the quick reply. I'm helping get other people in our co familiar with Teams and little things like this help!
