Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Teams

Keyboard shortcuts are indispensable to speed up the most common tasks. It can take a while before you feel like you know your way around these essentials, but once you do, it becomes less than a second’s work to perform a command, instead of fumbling through a menu. 

Here are some useful keyboard shortcuts to get started.

  • Search: Ctrl+E (as in Explore)
  • Turn on/off Camera: Ctrl+Shift+O (as in On/Off)
  • Turn on/off Microphone: Ctrl+Shift+M (as in Microphone)
  • Background Blurring: Ctrl+Shift+P (as in Picture)