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Free Guide: How To Get The Most From Microsoft Teams
Teams is far more than a chat and video tool. This short guide shows how small businesses use it to save time, work together and keep everything in one place.
What's inside
Written for business owners and office managers, not IT specialists. It covers the basics, the features that save the most time and how to get your team using it well.
What Teams is and why your business needs it
One place for chat, video calls and files, working alongside Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, so less gets lost in overflowing inboxes.
Teams, channels and chats: what is the difference?
When to use a private chat and when to use a channel, with a simple example showing how they work together.
Meetings that work
Scheduling, one-click joining, recordings, screen sharing and follow-up actions, all linked to the right team or channel.
Working together, even when you are apart
Edit the same file at the same time, with one shared copy, comments and version history, instead of emailing documents back and forth.
Built-in apps and staying connected
Planner, Approvals and Forms, plus ways to keep remote and hybrid colleagues feeling part of the team.
Common mistakes and your first 30 days
Four mistakes we see businesses make, how to avoid them, and a simple week-by-week plan for rolling Teams out.
Teams gets better as your business uses it
Most of the benefit comes from a few simple habits: shared conversations in channels, one copy of each file and short, well-run meetings. A little structure at the start saves a lot of confusion later.
Teams is part of Microsoft 365, so you may also like our page on Microsoft 365 for small business and our free guide SharePoint made simple.
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