# How to ping someone on teams?

> To notify people in Microsoft Teams, post a message in a channel using @general to alert everyone, notify a specific person to mark it as important, or use @teamchannel and @channelname to notify all members, then click Send.

Canonical: https://livedemo.ai/tutorials/how-to-ping-someone-on-teams/
Apps: Microsoft Teams
Updated: 2026-10-05
Interactive demo: https://story-api.livedemo.ai/workspaces/62255d3d3304f17b8f5e2d03/stories/692a4a7dab56e05a00ff5988/preview?step=1

## Steps

1. Post something in any channel that you'd like and use @general to notify everyone on it Click on 'Send' to send the message
2. You can notify a person in a channel to mark it as important for him or her
3. You can use @teamchannel to notify everyone on that team
4. You can also use @channelname to notify everyone in that channel