Microsoft Teams: green screen - how to change the background

With Microsoft Teams, you can network both inside and outside your company and hold video conferences and meetings. In addition, you have the option to chat and use other options, for example, to work together in the best possible way in the home office.

How to use the green screen in Microsoft Teams

When you make a video call or hold a video conference, you need a webcam to actively participate in the action. In the process, the gaze of your counterpart(s) inevitably also falls on your surroundings. If you do not want to have this in the picture, then you can use the "green screen effect" in Microsoft Teams to change, replace or even blur the background.

1. First open Microsoft Teams and log in with your log-in data if necessary.
2. Switch to the menu, which presents itself in the form of three dots and click on it.
3. There you select "Show background effects".
4. Now opens to you on the side an overview. There are all the available images that you can insert as a background.
5. Select the one you want, where this is then directly integrated as your background for video calls and video conferences.
6. Of course, you can also create your own background, which contains, for example, your company logo.
7. Diesen gestalten Sie vorab und fügen ihn anschließend in den „Hintergrundeinstellungen“ über „Neuen hinzufügen“ ein.
8. Jetzt wählen Sie den Hintergrund aus und bestätigen die Auswahl mit „Übernehmen“.