Sending and formatting messages

Sending messages is one of the most commonly used features when it comes to collaboration and teamwork inside Microsoft Teams, and making sure that we can use different and better ways to communicate our ideas with colleagues is a big deal.

To help you and your team with that, Microsoft Teams provides several features, such as formatting your messages, sending GIFs, setting a message as important, or even adding a code snippet if you need to share some technical stuff with a bunch of lines of code.

Let's have a look at how we can do all of that in this section.

Formatting messages

In Microsoft Teams, we have a toolbar to allow us to format our messages when communicating with colleagues. This toolbar has features that can be found in other Microsoft products, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and gives you tools to format your text messages, including adding bold, italic, underline, highlight, and some other basic things. This is...