What you will learn

This course explains everything you need to know about working with files and folders in Teams and collaborating with Team members. Over 95% of our courses are less than one minute long allowing you to quickly find out what you want to know

  • How to create, save and upload files and folders to Teams

  • How to collaborate seamlessly with Team members

  • How to use Version Control

  • How to find out who changed a file and when

  • And more ...

Course Content

  • 1

    About folders and files in Microsoft Teams

    • Where are folders and files located in Teams

    • The link between Teams and SharePoint

    • How to find all team files in SharePoint

    • What can yo do with files in teams
  • 2

    Working with folders

    • How to upload existing folders

    • How to create a new folder

    • How to rename a folder

    • How to delete a folder

    • Restoring a deleted folder

    • Creating shortcuts to folders

    • Navigation between folders

    • What happens in SharePoint
  • 3

    Files - the basics

    • The link between Teams and SharePoint

    • Upload existing files

    • If uploading files ...

    • How to create new files

    • How to save a new file from desktop app using file, Save as

    • Closing a file

    • Making changes to files

    • Saving changes to files

    • Opening files

    • Opening a file in the desktop app

    • About autosave

    • Copying a file within a channel

    • Copying a file to different channel same team

    • Copying a file to different team

    • Moving files within a team

    • Moving files between teams

    • Renaming a file

    • Deleting a file

    • Restoring a deleted file
  • 4

    Files - collaborating

    • The link between Teams and SharePoint

    • How to open a file if a Team member has it open

    • How to work on a file with a Team member

    • How to find out who is working on the file at the same time as you

    • Collaborating in the desktop app

    • Jump to a cell someone else is editing

    • Whose changes take precedent?

    • Having a conversation when a file is open in Teams

    • Where can I find the conversation we had in a file

    • Using mentions in conversations

    • Finding recent changes to an Excel workbook

    • Finding recent changes to an Word document

    • About copy link

    • Share a file to someone outside your team
  • 5

    Files - version history

    • What is version history?

    • Finding Version History in the desktop app

    • Restoring an earlier version of a file from desktop app

    • Finding Version History online/in browser from Teams

    • Restoring an earlier version of a file online/in browser

    • Finding Version History in SharePoint from Teams
  • 6

    Files - check out and check in

    • The link between Teams and SharePoint

    • What is check out

    • How to check out a file

    • How do you know who has checked out a file

    • Check in a file

    • What is discard check out

    • Team Owners can check in any file

    • About check In comments and wh
  • 7

    Files - searching

    • The link between Teams and SharePoint

    • About searching for files in Teams

    • How to search - method 1

    • How to search - method 2

    • How to search - method 3

    • How to search - method 4

    • Using part of a file name

    • Search for contents of a file

    • Wild card search

    • Search for files in a specific team

    • Find files by type

    • Find files changed by a specific person
  • 8

    Files - creating shortcuts

    • Creating a tab shortcut to a file in a channel

    • Removing a tab shortcut to a file in a channel

    • Pinning a file

    • Unpinning a file

    • Pinning a folder

    • Unpinning a folder