Once selected from suggestions, the name should show as a purple hyperlink that, when hovered over, gives you that person’s contact card. typing would suggest my full name you could then select). To someone in a chat message or channel conversation post, simply type the “at” sign with no space after it, then begin typing the person’s name. In the remainder of this post, I’ll detail the 4 ways to others in Microsoft Teams to get their attention in a direct and professional manner without using urgent: While handy as a way to get attention, we want to be careful not to overuse urgent. PNW Coffee Social Campaign has unread activity, and some of that activity includes a message marked as important.Īnd in chat specifically, you can mark messages as “urgent” which does send activity notifications to recipients every 2 minutes for 20 minutes until they read it (or the 20 minutes ends). If you mark a message as important, the channel or chat name will still be bold, but will also have an exclamation point as seen with PNW Coffee Social Campaign below.
NC460 sales is a channel listed in bold, meaning there’s unread activity there. No activity notification, just a bold channel name or chat name that stays bold until I open that channel or chat, as seen below with NC460 Sales in the Retail team. What happens if you don’t someone? No means the chat or channel that you’ve posted in will just be listed in bold for all other members. When you’re composing a message (whether it’s in a channel, a meeting, or a group chat) you might write “Hey Chamberlain, can you review this outline?” This achieves the same result as in social media – making sure I get an Activity notification and am more likely to see your post and reply. For example, if you wanted my attention on Mastodon, you might write a post that my username such as “Hey – have you ever run across this error?” This makes sure I get a notification and know to go look at your is also how we tag people in Microsoft Teams. You may already be familiar with the concept of – it’s generally how we “tag” someone in social media.
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