Show week numbers in Outlook

Manuals showing how to enable week numbers in Outlook.

Configure Outlook with an M365 account

Manuals that describe how to set up email in Outlook on different operating systems/devices.

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Settings for Teams telephony

This is what you will see when you click on the “Calls” tab in Teams.

Image showing the view for Calls in Teams

  1. View and add new contacts.
  2. Write the number you want to call or search for a name and call directly.
  3. Choose if you want to forward your calls and find other settings for calls.
  4. Settings for your sound device. Choose which sound device you want to use.
  5. Click on your profile to change your status and set a status message. You can also schedule your absence.

You reach your settings by going to your profile in the top right corner, then choose  “Calls”.
Image showing the settings for Calls in Teams

 

Settings for telephony in Teams, mobile

This is what you will see when you click on the “Calls” tab in the Teams app.

You see a list of your call history.

Click on the phone in the bottom right corner to make a call.
Image showing what "calls" looks like in the Teams app for mobiles

You reach the settings by going to your profile on the left in the app, then choose “Settings”, and then “Calling”.

Here you can choose to forward your calls, set up what you want to happen in the event of a missed call, and change your voicemail greeting.
You can also choose to sync your device contacts and therefore reach all your contacts you have saved on your phone directly through Teams.

You can also choose to block numbers.
Image showing what the settings for calls looks like in the Teams app

 

Forward calls in Teams

If you can’t or don’t want to receive calls in Teams, you can forward your calls in a few different ways.

Select the “Do not disturb” status

Select the “Do Not Disturb” status to forward calls and temporarily turn off notifications.

Click on your profile in the upper right corner, then click on the status and select “Do not disturb”.

Do not disturb status

Under “Duration” you can choose how long you want the status to be displayed.

In your Calls settings in Teams, you decide what happens in case of unanswered calls, by default the call goes to voicemail.

Choose to forward calls

In the Calls settings in Teams, you can choose “Forward my calls” and what happens when forwarding, for example forwarding to voicemail.

Forward calls in Teams

Remember to change the setting back when you want to be available again.

In case of longer absence, for example vacation or leave of absence

If you have scheduled yourself as “Out of office” in your calendar in Outlook, you will also appear with the status “Out of office” in Teams.

You can supplement your absence in Teams with a status message. Click on your profile in the upper right corner and then select “Set status message”. You can also choose how long the message should be displayed.

When you’re away from Teams, your calls are directed to voicemail by default.

Out of office greeting in Teams

In the Calls settings in Teams, under “Configure voicemail”, you can enter your own out of office greeting and choose when you want it to be played, for example when you have an auto-reply in Outlook or an out of office event in your calendar.

Send from alias in your e-mail in Microsoft 365

  1. Create new mail
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  2. Choose Options.
    Image showing how to choose "options"
  3. Choose Show from, this field is then added.
    Image showing "Show from"
  4. Click on From in the mail.If it is your first time doing this, you need to state you student e-mail adress. Choose From, and then choose another e-mail adress and state your studentmail in the format: umuid@student.umu.se.Next time the mail adress is going to be avaliable as an option when clicking on From.
    image showing where the email is from
    Image showing the email adress

Create a vote in your e-mail in Outlook with Microsoft Forms

In this guide we describe, with the help of Forms, how to create a vote directly in you email from Outlook. 

  1. Start by creating a new e-mail. You do this by clicking on New Email.
    Image of "new email" icon
  2. Write you email as usual.
  3. Go to Insert, and then choose Poll.
    Image showing how to start the poll in Outlook
  4. To the right in your window, a field is now inserted where you write your question, and the options the receiver can choose between. Choose Multiple answers if they are allowed to choose multiple options.
  5. When you are happy with your question, you click on Next.
    Image showing how you insert your question
  6. In this step you see how the vote will look in the email. If you are ready, you choose Add to email. If you want to make changes, choose Edit.
    Image showing how it looks when previewing your question
  7. When you have added the vote to the email, the question, and a link to the form is going to show. Now you can send your vote in the email.
  8. When the receiver has gotten your email, they can answer the question directly in the email. The result can easily be found with your other forms in Microsoft Forms (forms.office.com) or directly in Outlook if you put yourself as a copy. Then choose View result.
    Image showing how to view the result of your question

Create a board view in Microsoft Lists

Lists is a tool in Microsoft 365 where you can create, share, and track lists. In this manual we describe how you create a board view.

Observe that the appearance can differ whether you are using Mac or Windows.

Create board view

  1. Go to your chosen list in Microsoft Lists you want to create a board view in.
  2. Choose All objects in the menu bar and then Create new view.
    Image showing how to choose "All items" i Microsoft lists
  3. Now you see the window where you can edit and create you new view:
    1. Add the name you want for your board view.
    2. Then choose Board
    3. Choose how you want to organize your board by clicking the arrow to the right in this field. If you don’t already have any completed columns, it will automatically create a column that is named choice1. If you have completed columns, choose the column you want to organize you board view by (Example: by location, status, or date). Your board view will then be sorted and structured by how you have organized your board.
    4. If you want your list to be public for others, you tic this box. If you want it to be private, you keep this box empty. If you choose to make it private, you are the only one who can see and edit the board.
    5. When you are ready, click Create.
    Image showing how to create and edit your board view
  4. Now your Board view is showing, and here you can Add new buckets and manage your current buckets. You can place your objects to the bucket they belong to and add more object by clicking the Plus-sign in the right corner of each bucket.
    Image showing your board view