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Microsoft Teams For Dummies
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Microsoft Teams For Dummies

by Rosemarie Withee
April 2020
Beginner
304 pages
7h 20m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 1

Getting Up and Running with Microsoft Teams

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Finding Microsoft Teams on the Internet

Bullet Figuring out where to sign up and sign in

Bullet Gaining a general understanding of Teams

Bullet Getting familiar with basic Teams terminology

I admit that when I first heard about Microsoft Teams, I was not very impressed. The market was already filled with chat programs. Microsoft even purchased the most popular one, Skype! So why did Microsoft decide to create more software that was redundant? Well, that was a few years ago, and since then, I have experienced firsthand the vision Microsoft had for Teams, what it has become, and why it has surpassed SharePoint as the fastest growing product in Microsoft’s history.

In this chapter, you see what makes Teams so special and why it’s become the fastest growing product in Microsoft history. First, you get up and running with the Teams app in a quick tutorial that helps you find the Teams app online. You then find out how to sign up and sign in. After that, you take a quick spin around the Teams interface and learn some of the basic Teams ...

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