Teams Shortcuts

This tool extends the Microsoft Teams Windows Client with additional hotkeys and functionality.

How to install

See separate page here PowerTools Setup.

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Changelog

News

Contact

You can also create an issue in GitHub.

How to use

You can start the Teams Shortcuts main menu by pressing the Windows+T Hotkey when a Teams window is active.

TeamsShortcuts Menu

In the menu you can also see which hotkeys directly run the features e.g. Alt+R for Smart Reply.

You can access some settings and features via the Teams Shortcuts System Tray Icon Menu.

System Tray Icon Actions

When you click on the System Tray icon, some actions will be run.

Left-Click will open the Tool menu. Double Left Click will open the Help page. Middle-mouse Click: if a meeting is active, short press will toggle mute. Long press will activate push-to-talk functionality Right-mouse Click: if a Teams Meeting is active it will toggle the camera on/off. Right Double Mouse Click: will open active the Teams Active Meeting Window

Feature Highlights

Integrated Teams launcher

You can make use of the Teamsy functionality from Teams Shortcuts. See this blog post.

You can either launch the launcher from the Teams Shortcuts System Tray icon menu Launcher.

Teams Shortcuts Launcher Menu

Or assign a global hotkey to it.

Global hotkeys

Teams Shortcuts are only active if a Teams Window is selected/ under focus. The TeamsShortcuts PowerTool allows to define global hotkeys for Microsoft Teams.

New Conversation (Alt+N)

It will open a new conversation with the expanded compose box and move back the cursor right on the subject line - within one hotkey.

Teams Shortcuts New Conversation

See main blog post

Smart reply (Alt+R)

See main blog post

Teams Shortcuts Smart Reply

Personalize Mentions (Alt+1)

Send Mentions

See main blog post

TeamsShortcuts Send Mentions Gif

Meeting Live Reactions

Push To Talk

Mute on/ off

Share To Teams

Troubleshooting

If some features does not work properly, check-out if tuning these parameters can solve the issue.

Source code

Main code is contained in TeamsShortcuts.ahk Main Library used is Lib/Teams.ahk