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Channels are a big part of Teams and assist with building conversation and collaboration around a topic, such as projects or core team functions like research, admin, finance etc
You can create a new new channel for your team by clicking on the three dots / ellipsis symbol (1) to open up a menu and then selecting Add channel (2):
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Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF files must be uploaded to the Files tab before they can be converted to other tabs. Any existing uploaded file can be converted to a tab with a single click
Once a file is added, you can immediately start working on it with your team members. So if add a document to a tab, this will be visible to all team members who can then edit, review, annotate the document.
If you are signed in to Office 2016 or Office 2019 with your @cam.ac.uk account you will also see any recently edited files from channels appear in your "Recent Files" list - you can open, edit and save them back to the Teams Files section from within the office application. The path for them will appear as "Team_Name >> Shared Documents >> Channel_Name" or "University of Cambridge >> sites >> Team_Name:
Notes
This tab should be setup to use OneNote, which is a note taking application.
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Please note that Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF files must be uploaded to the Files tab before they can be converted to other tabs.
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