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How to raise your hand in Microsoft Teams meetings effectively in 3 simple

Dave W Shanahan
5 min readDec 13, 2021

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Here are three ways you can raise your hand in any Microsoft Teams meeting:

1. Ctrl + Shift + K (keyboard shortcut)
2. Use the “raise hand” button in the Microsoft Teams app on your Windows PC
3. Use the “raise hand” button in a Microsoft Teams meeting on Android and iPhone

Few people know how to raise your hand in Microsoft Teams to get a presenter’s attention without stopping a meeting completely. Without using raise your hand in Microsoft Teams, all hell can break loose.

By using raise your hand in Microsoft Teams, you can notify the speaker that you have a question or comment without stopping the meeting completely.

During a Microsoft Teams meeting, using the raise your hand feature can prevent people from interrupting others while they are speaking or in the middle of giving a presentation. It’s available on Microsoft Teams on all platforms, find your method in the solutions below.

Raise your hand in the Microsoft Teams desktop app

Using the Microsoft Teams app on your computer, you can raise your hand by using one of these two methods.

On a video call, you should see a floating bar fixed to the top right corner of your Microsoft Teams app. From here, you can either:

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Dave W Shanahan
Dave W Shanahan

Written by Dave W Shanahan

OnMSFT.com. Tech Writer. I love to write about Microsoft and other stuff.

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