Microsoft Teams Features for Effective Collaboration in 2025

Are you looking for an online platform that lets your team a chat, interact, and collaborate effectively? Slack and Microsoft Teams have been the most popular and powerful tools for collaborating at work. Microsoft Teams features, however, make it distinct from Slack.

Teams can automate workflows, and it includes many other features that make it a robust solution for team collaboration compared to Slack. Microsoft Teams’ powerful features will engage and drive productivity within your team.

So, whether your business is planning to migrate from Slack to Teams or transfer from Google Chat to Teams, know these important features that make collaboration easier, effective, and productive.

1. Enhanced Spell Check with Multi-Language Support

You can make sure that your messages are professional and understandable by using enhanced spell check. The Teams compose box will highlight any spell check issues as you type your message.

From a drop-down menu, you can then select whether to ignore or rectify them. You can enable spellchecking in each of the three languages you add to your language list.

The below image shows how you will get enhanced check as you type in your Microsoft Team account.

2. Enhanced Conversation List View

Listed below are new features added in Microsoft Teams that helps your teams experience enhanced communication.

• Mentions View
  You can ensure that essential communications don’t get lost by using mentions to bring them to your attention. To see more information about a channel or chat, click on each message. Then, you can respond or react right away before moving on to the next mention.
  
• View All Unread Messages
  Filter your conversations to display just unread messages when you get back from a meeting or break. All of the messages you haven’t yet reviewed will be visible in a single view. Choose the Chat, Channels, or Meetings filter if you need to refine the results by conversation type further.
  

3. Organize Chats and Channels

With the new chat and channels experience, you can organize your discussions and reduce the strain of managing a cluttered workspace.

• Sections
  To make it easier to find discussions and reduce the time you spend searching, you can group all 1:1s, group chats, and channels by project or topic.
  

4. Copilot in Teams

With Microsoft Teams, Copilot enhances collaboration and makes the most of meetings and conversations. With Copilot, you can quickly summarize, assign follow-up tasks, create agendas, and pose questions during meetings. You can also summarize the most important lessons learned and see what you missed. You can do it all without interfering with the conversation.

In addition to your most crucial Teams touch points, Copilot in Teams leverages the content from your Teams meetings and chats to produce insights and valuable suggestions.

Note: You can use Copilot in Teams on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. To access Copilot in Teams, you need to have both a Microsoft 365 and a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

5. Customized View

Without technical assistance, you can easily keep your channels and chat separate if that’s your preference. After selecting the ellipsis adjacent to the Chat header, pick the Separate view by selecting Customize view from the drop-down menu.

To view your chat and channels list in its entirety, use the expand and collapse all options. To collapse all parts, choose it from the Chat ellipsis drop-down menu. As needed, sort and arrange your sections using this view.

6. Improved Channel Experience

Team’s channels have undergone a revamp to improve usability:

• Conversation filters and pinned chats for easier navigation
• Using a Channel calendar to streamline scheduling
• Customizable Channel templates to meet the demands of various teams

CloudFuze’s Real World Case Study – Slack to Teams

Stryker Corporation wanted to migrate only a selective number of users from a vast pool of accounts from Slack to Microsoft Teams. Also, they had a limited time window (timeline of only one month) to plan and execute the migration.

Our team at CloudFuze helped them avoid the hassle of segregating user accounts by sorting through many user accounts and shortlisting them. We helped them move permissions, slack channels, chat messages with emojis, mentions and files along with incremental changes from Slack to Teams. Learn more about this case study here.

Here’s a video of our tool performing Slack to Teams migration:

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Does Teams have a call option?

Yes, Teams provides you with call options. You can have one-on-one calls or calls with several people. You can do an audio call or video call based on your preference.

2. What’s included with Teams Premium?

With extra features that make Teams calls and meetings even more engaging and secure, Microsoft Teams Premium provides you with notable features such as:

• AI-powered calls and meetings
• Live translation of captions and transcripts in real-time thus breaking language barriers
• Enable collaborative call handling
• Easily manage call queues

3. What are the four types of Microsoft Teams?

The four types of Microsoft Teams include Class, Professional Learning Community (PLC), Staff, and Other. To know types in detail, you can check out the official link here.