Microsoft Teams will soon give you more control over how you work
Microsoft Teams will receive new options for Office files
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Microsoftis working on a new feature forTeamsthat will give users greater control and flexibility when handling Office files shared via thecollaboration platform.
As per anew entryto the company’s product roadmap, users will soon be able to dictate the platform on whichWord,ExcelandPowerPointfiles are launched when opened through the Teams client.
“Users can set a default ofbrowser, desktop or Teams when opening Office files that are shared in Teams. The desktop setting can be selected if the user has Office version 16 or newer installed and activated,” Microsoft explained.
It is unclear when users can expect to be able to take advantage of the feature, which is said to be “in development” but also set for release in May 2021 (i.e. last month).TechRadar Prohas asked Microsoft for clarification on this point.
Microsoft Teams integrations
Since the transition toremote working, the battle forvideo conferencingand collaboration supremacy has been fought keenly between services such asTeams,Zoom,Slackand many others.
Although feature sets have become increasingly homogenous as time has passed, with each vendor taking cues from the others, Microsoft Teams stands apart thanks to its tight integration with the widerMicrosoft 365suite of apps and services.
For example, Teams works in lockstep withOneDriveand SharePoint, making file-sharing easy and intuitive. Microsoft is also working on a new PowerPoint integration, designed to make managing remote presentations and engaging with the audience less challenging.
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The new options for Office files may seem like a small upgrade, but will contribute nonetheless to characterization of Teams as a central hub at the heart of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
The change will also give users greater flexibility with regards to how they work; whether they prefer to collaborate on documents from within Teams itself or work solo via the desktop clients.
Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.
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