{"id":5327,"date":"2019-06-13T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2019-06-13T21:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:12:34","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-post-announcements-in-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5327","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 you can post announcements in Teams?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teams announcements are another way to bring attention to a specific post. This doesn\u2019t address the desire to pin<\/em> a post<\/a> so it\u2019s always visible in the channel (click the link and vote if that\u2019s something you want to do too).<\/p>\n

When you are in the advanced editor (click \u201cFormat\u201d or use Ctrl-Shift-I), you will see a drop-down to change conversation posts to an announcement.<\/p>\n

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When creating an announcement, the editor will have a banner at the top. You can put text in the banner and customize the banner background. Click either the color selector or the image selector in the bottom right-hand corner of the banner.<\/p>\n

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You can upload a custom image \u2013 you\u2019ll want something that is a long, horizontal rectangle. Select \u201cUpload an image\u201d and select the file you want to use as the background.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll probably need to crop the image \u2013 you can adjust which portion of the image is shown and zoom into the image as needed. Click \u201cDone\u201d to accept your crop selections.<\/p>\n

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Compose the rest of the message as normal \u2013 you can add a sub-heading and any of the message content available in regular posts. Post the announcement<\/p>\n

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The post will have a little megaphone logo (this doesn\u2019t show up as a filter option yet, but I expect it will be added in the future) and the banner will make your post stand out in the conversation listing.<\/p>\n

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They make your post stand out with a caveat \u2013 just like marking all<\/em> of your posts as important, announcements lose their efficacy when every post is an announcement. Use sparingly!<\/p>\n

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Teams announcements are another way to bring attention to a specific post. This doesn\u2019t address the desire to pin a post so it\u2019s always visible in the channel (click the link and vote if that\u2019s something you want to do too). When you are in the advanced editor (click \u201cFormat\u201d or use Ctrl-Shift-I), you will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[675,691,729,666,686],"class_list":["post-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}