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How to throw confetti on a Microsoft Teams call

Teams reactions are small hearts and claps in the corner. When your team ships something big, you can do better: full-screen confetti that everyone in the meeting sees.

What you need

• Confetti Magic for Windows (Windows 10 or 11). It draws the effects over your whole desktop, so they're part of what Teams shares.
• The Teams desktop app or Teams in a browser. Either works.

Steps

1. Install Confetti Magic from the Microsoft Store and open it once. It waits in the notification area (the system tray) from then on.
2. Join your Teams meeting and select Share in the meeting controls.
3. Choose your screen, not a single window. If you have more than one monitor, pick the one you're presenting from.
4. Press AltShiftD at the big moment. Confetti fires from both corners of your screen and everyone on the call sees it.

Pick the right effect

• AltShiftD Burst: the classic, for a launch or a hit target.
• AltShiftF Fireworks: end of the quarter, end of the year.
• AltShiftE Emoji rain: choose a set in Settings. Thank you (❤️ 💖 😍 🙌) works well for shout-outs, Closed a deal (💸 💰 🤑 📈) for sales calls.
• AltShiftS Snow: the last call before the holidays.

Tips

• Make it big enough to see. Screen sharing sends a smaller, less smooth picture than your monitor shows. Party or Extreme intensity reads best on the other end.
• Pause before serious meetings. One click on Pause in the tray turns every shortcut off, so nothing goes off by accident mid-presentation.
• Stop all clears the screen instantly if you need to get back to your slides.
• The effects are click-through, so you can keep presenting while they play.

Using Teams in Chrome?

The free Chrome extension plays effects inside a browser tab. If you share that tab, or your whole screen, the call sees them too. It can't draw over the Teams desktop app or other programs; that's what the Windows app is for.