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Slash commands in Teams’ search bar are general shortcuts that help you look up information in Teams efficiently.

Whether you’re looking for saved items, unread items, files or commands, need to change your status or need help finding a Team or channel, / will be there for you. It replaces all other steps you’d normally have to go through. On top of this, a slash is all you need to start a chat or call someone, find a specific person’s activity and even find messages in which you were mentioned.

Just type ‘/’ followed by what you want to do. It’s that quick and easy.

Here’s an overview:

Slash commands in Teams’ search bar are general shortcuts that help you look up information in Teams efficiently.

Whether you’re looking for saved items, unread items, files or commands, need to change your status or need help finding a Team or channel, / will be there for you. It replaces all other steps you’d normally have to go through. On top of this, a slash is all you need to start a chat or call someone, find a specific person’s activity and even find messages in which you were mentioned.

Just type ‘/’ followed by what you want to do. It’s that quick and easy.

Here’s an overview:

Keyboard shortcuts

Here’s a last tip: type /keys to see an overview of all keyboard shortcuts. Use CTRL + E to go directly to the Teams search bar, for example.

 

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