Create a Team for Work

A Team is a shared space in Microsoft Teams that can be used to communicate with a group of colleagues, create videoconferencing links for meetings, and share files.

 

 


Create a Team

Click Teams in the lefthand navigation to view all of the Teams you have created or belong to.

A screenshot of Microsoft Teams

 

Click Join or create team, then Create a new team.

A screenshot of Microsoft Teams

 

Choose Staff as the team type.

 

Enter a name and optional description for your work team, then click Next. For example: Information Technology Team

During this step, you can also create a new Team using an existing team as a template.

Add your coworkers as team members

Navigate to the work team you'd like to add a colleague to, then click … (More options) next to your work team.

Click Add member and enter the name of your colleague.

 

Click Add, then Close.

Need more help?

Visit Microsoft’s support site: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-team-from-scratch-174adf5f-846b-4780-b765-de1a0a737e2b