Teams Basic

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• To download the Teams for Desktop, follow the link on our download page.
• To download the Teams mobile app, go to your mobile device and follow the link on our download page. Or download it from the iOS App Store or Google Play Store.

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[accordion title="How%20to%20sign%20in"]Start Teams.

• In Windows, click Start > Microsoft Teams.
• On Mac, go to the Applications folder and click Microsoft Teams.
• On mobile, tap the Teams icon.

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• Select New chat at the top of the app to start a new conversation.
• Type the name or names into the To field at the top of your new chat.
• Compose your message in the box at the bottom of the chat. To open your formatting options, select Format beneath the box.
• When you're ready, select Send. Everyone who has access to the chat can see your message.

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[accordion title="What%20are%20Teams%20%2F%20Channels"]A team is a group of people gathered to get something big done in your organization. Sometimes it’s your whole organization.
Teams are made up of channels, which are the conversations you have with your teammates. Each channel is dedicated to a specific topic, department, or project.

Channels are where the work actually gets done—where text, audio, and video conversations open to the whole team happen, where files are shared, and where apps are added.
While channel conversations are public, chats are just between you and someone else (or a group of people). Think of them like instant messages in Skype for Business or other messaging apps.[/accordion]

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• To create a group chat, open the Teams desktop application, click on compose icon.
• From the compose a new message windows, click on the drop-down arrow to create new Group chat.
• You will notice when you click in the drop-down, the option to specify a group name appears and you can add the team member names.
• Enjoy chatting.

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Upload existing files

There are two primary ways to upload existing files into your library. Both methods start by going to the files folder for your channel and both methods, by default, upload copies of your files to the channel file folder.

• Drag and drop - Using your mouse, drag the file from where it's currently located and drop it on the Teams window among the files.
• Upload - Select Upload,then select the file (or files) you'd like to upload, and select Open.

Any files you upload will be accessible by any member of your team. And just like in SharePoint, you can pin specific files to the top of your list for easy access.

Create a file

To create a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel document in Teams, select New, then select the kind of file you'd like to create. The new file will open in Teams so you can begin editing it, and if you'd prefer to work in the desktop version of the app, select Open in Desktop App at the top of the app, in the middle of the ribbon.
As soon as it's created your new file will be available for your team members to edit as well.

Co-edit a file

Files uploaded and shared to a team are accessible to every member of the Team. In Office for the web, Office for Android or iOS, or the latest applications from Microsoft 365, you and your team members can co-edit Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents, or comment on Visio files. No need to check files out or worry about if one of your colleagues has the document open. Just open the file you need to edit and if other team members are editing it too your changes will be seamlessly merged as you work.

Share with people outside your team

If the file is a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Visio file, the easiest way to share it is to open the file in its corresponding Office for the web or desktop app. Select Share at the top right corner of the window. From there enter the aliases or email addresses of people you want to email the file link, or select Copy Link to choose where you share the link.
If you want to share with people outside your organization you may have to select the permissions drop-down (right above where you add the people you want to share with) and select that Specific People can access the file.
Once you've shared the file, those users can edit the file in real time (unless you unchecked Allow editing in the Link Settings dialog) just like the other members of your team can.

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