Have you ever sat in a Teams meeting and found yourself gritting your teeth every time someone said, ânext slide, pleaseâ?
Me too.
And if your business runs a lot of online meetings or webinars, youâll know the frustration of clunky handovers and awkward pauses when switching between presenters.
Well, thereâs good news. And itâs about time.
Microsoft is rolling out a small but mighty update to Teams thatâs going to make a surprisingly big difference to how your meetings run.
First, if youâre not too familiar with Teams, letâs quickly cover the basics. Itâs Microsoftâs all-in-one communication platform. Video calls, chat, file sharing, and collaboration tools are all combined in one place.
Whether your team is remote, hybrid, or all under one roof, it helps everyone stay connected and productive without needing to jump between lots of different apps.
Back to the update. Microsoftâs introducing a feature that will let multiple people control the presentation slides during a Teams meeting or webinar.
Right now, if youâve ever tried to co-present in Teams, youâll know that only one person has control of the slides. Everyone else is stuck asking the presenter to move things along. Thatâs not only frustrating, but it also breaks the flow of the meeting.
This new feature will let the meeting host hand over slide control to more than one person.
That means if youâve got a few people presenting different parts of a deck, each of them can take control of the slides when itâs their turn, without stopping the meeting or awkwardly calling out instructions. It sounds like a small thing, but in practice, itâll make meetings feel much more natural and professional.
This feature has started to roll out already, beginning with the Windows desktop version of Teams. Itâll likely involve the host selecting co-presenters when setting up the meeting. Hopefully, the setup will be as smooth as the presentations will be.
To me, this is one of those updates that should have been added years ago. But hey, better late than never, right?
Alongside other recent improvements like real-time text messaging during calls (great for those who prefer typing over talking), itâs clear Microsoftâs working hard to make Teams more flexible and intuitive.
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