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Insert your own background in Microsoft Teams

Answer 1

Add your own background to teams
1st step:
2nd step:
3rd step:
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quick start Guide

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In this post we will show you how you can include your own background in your video call in teams..

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In Microsoft Teams, you can blur your own background during a video call or replace it with an image. Teams already offers you a number of such backgrounds, but you can also set your own image as the background.

Add your own background to teams

Follow our step-by-step instructions , the quick start guide or the explanatory video .

1st step:

While a video call is in progress, click on the three dots in the menu bar. Here you then have to select the option " Show background effects ".

2nd step:

An overview with different backgrounds opens on the right-hand side. There click on " Add new ".

3rd step:

Now select an image file from your computer. With " Open " you add the picture to the background overview in Microsoft Teams. You will then find it at the bottom of the list.

Click on the background of your choice and select " Apply ". Then it will automatically be added to teams as your personal background. You can also click " Preview " first to try out the background without other participants in the call seeing it.

Tip: We'll show you how you can then use this picture as a background in Microsoft Teams in another article: Microsoft Teams: Changing the background..

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quick start Guide

1. With the call in progress, click on the three dots in the bar at the bottom .
2. From there, select " Show background effects ".
3. Now click on " Add new " in the background overview on the right .
4. Then select an image file from your computer and click on " Open ".
5. Then you have to select the background from the list and click on " Apply ".

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