Microsoft has launched a practical time saver for its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users, which means one step less when moving attachments between the Outlook email client and the Teams collaboration application.
Prior to this update, some Outlook and Teams users complained that they needed to drag and drop PDF, Word and Excel attachments from the email window to the desktop and then drag them from there to the files tab in Teams.
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It seems an oversight that Microsoft did not include this feature in Teams from the beginning, since Outlook and Teams are from the same productivity software as Microsoft. But the feature is now available, according to a post by a Microsoft Teams engineer on the Teams user forum. The idea was first suggested at the forum in 2016, although it is also important to note that about 61,000 ideas were submitted, so engineers have a lot to work on.
“I’m happy to report that drag-and-drop support for file attachments directly from Outlook to Teams is now available,” wrote the Microsoft engineering team official.
Microsoft is also working to add the ability to allow Teams users in the free version of the collaboration application to use the calendar to schedule meetings.
“This one [is] currently being tested internally. We will share an update as soon as it becomes available, “said a Microsoft employee.
Microsoft initially didn’t offer a free version of Teams chat, but Slack’s free offer forced it to offer one, and then during the first round of pandemic blockages in 2020, Zoom forced Microsoft to reinforce its free video call capabilities, as live subtitles. Previously, the feature was only available to Office 365 customers. Microsoft also allows free Teams users to create videoconferences.