Teams - Change your status in Teams | Duration and Status Message

[@ChrisMenardTraining]

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[@NeutronStar9]

It is a bit weird that Microsoft teams developers did not think to include shift timing in status! This would had been simple and so much useful for people across other teams to know and expect when someone could be online.

[@lesleyanne1904]

My question is do employers have the ability to customize teams so that employees cannot override their status defaulting to away?

[@RR-et6zp]

The status message thing is great

[@ChrisMenardTraining]

I agree. I use it all the time.

[@Graphicious]

Awesome, I didn't know you could do so many commands from the command bar!

[@ChrisMenardTraining]

Thank you. The command bar is awesome!

[@sassysally45]

Hi have a question . There was an excel file in team a group of us where working on and Paine how the data info got un lined . Meaning the name of and address don’t match anymore some how the file got distorted. How can that happen ? Can we sort with out causing an issue and delete lines

[@tonibuzzard9312]

I use 2 email programs in Windows 10 but also had windows Mail that was changed to Outlook (new) about a year ago. I don't check it very often but today I could not use it because it seemed that it wanted me to say if I wanted Teams or not. I have no need for it but it seemed that my only option was to say yes to the Free version. I didn't do anything yet. How can I just view any emails in Outlook? Thanks in advance.

[@HalaMadrid98]

Hi Chris, any idea why my teams never shows in a meeting for me. Even if I join a meeting it says in a call but never shows in a meeting. Please help.

[@GenkiDamaSSJ]

So there is no way to make the automatic status for an event on my calendar have the status of "be right back"? I would like to set this status for my lunch, instead of "Busy". Or, even better would be if the teams away status could reflect the event name on the calendar.

[@ChrisMenardTraining]

If you are in a meeting, it will read "in a meeting". If you are in a meeting presenting, it will read "presenting". If you want it to be BRB, you can set that manually. If you go to lunch, you can change it to BRB before you go.

[@GenkiDamaSSJ]

@@ChrisMenardTraining thanks for the quick response. I wish it could just be done automatically!

[@karenromero2194]

super helpful! thank you so much!

[@ChrisMenardTraining]

You're so welcome!

[@lowercaseCAPS]

When editing status message, how do I enter more than one line? When I press Enter while editing, it does do a carriage return, but once saved, it puts everything on to one line and has removed the carriage return

[@izzyhezz]

They conveniently left out an option for always available 😒

[@ChrisMenardTraining]

I had this conversation with co-workers the other day. On my Teams, the same version as my co-workers, I show _available_ . Doesn't matter what else I do. A co-worker goes appears away _away_ five or ten minutes, even though she is in Excel or Word doing something on the same computer.

[@davidberg4445]

Weird issue - I Can adjust status that precedes "Out of Office" to available, busy, etc....... but cannot remove the status "out of office"

[@ChrisMenardTraining]

David, by chance in Outlook do you have OOO turned on?

[@smithakurup7435]

Go to outlook and clear the OOO busy to free and it will update

[@ericturner4067]

I set status message and now I can’t change status from the drop down. I can only set it from taskbar

[@ericturner4067]

Also can’t delete status message

[@alishahassan]

What is unknown status ?

[@justinedse8435]

Fired!

[@mariapilarboylen2098]

LOLLOLLOL oh myyy I do not want to see that one on y Teams... @@justinedse8435

[@mss627]

Unfortunately like everything Microsoft, Teams is completely unintuitive. Most people have a work schedule. It would be nice if users could incorporate that schedule into teams instead of having to manually change status for every instance. This is simple programing that most alarm clocks can accomplish yet somehow it's escaped the "geniuses" at Microsoft.