In this blog series I’m exploring what I think are some of the common day-to-day pitfalls of using Microsoft Teams. You know the ones; the “if I had a pound for every time I’ve done that…” facepalming moments.

Deadly sin number 3 for this blog is thinking you’ve sent a chat… but you haven’t!

I find this happens for me most when I’m sharing a document in chat. I drag the document into the message bar, and then Teams has it’s little uploading moment aaaannnd, another chat pops up, or I realise I’ve run out of tea, and then I’ve stepped away from the chat without actually pressing send on the document.

So it just sits there, all lonely and unread, and the recipient(s) is none the wiser that I’ve even tried to share a document with them…until I go back into the chat hours (or days?!) later and realise that I wasn’t being ignored, I just hadn’t pressed send!

One day in a delightful utopian future, documents will auto-send as soon as they are uploaded, but until that day comes; here’s an idea: bring back Clippy. That little guy tapping on my screen and saying “It looks like you’re trying to send a document, have you forgotten to press send?” would come in reeeally handy.

Clippy jokes aside (although it sort of wasn’t a joke) – an easy workaround would be to get out of the drag and drop habit and share the link to the document instead, that way there’s no uploading pause and it’s easier to remember to press send!

Are you guilty of this Teams deadly sin? Let me know in the comments!