Left Align Chat messaging
For individual/group chats (not the Teams chat), can you PLEASE left align the chat, it's too reminiscent of AOL. There is no need for the back and forth, left to right between two people.
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GCD
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I agree, please fix.
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John Allen
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I agree 100%. Please add this feature. It's extremely important.
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the voice of the people
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holy **** someone started this in 2017 and I'm finding the same issue in 2021. Another example of MS forcing ****** UI on it's users. Why I try to avoid MS products at home, but I'm stuck with them at work...
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Malabari
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I guess alternating left/right chat is easy to read on small devices. I am not sure of others most of the time I am using Teams at work on a big monitor and it looks ugly and hard to read. Also, there is a lot of wasted space on both sides. All my chats appear in the middle like on the median of a highway.
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Lotus
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It is easy to read chat messages with the alternating left/right on a PC screen.
Jabber allows you to chose the layout. Please add the same in the Teams chat. -
Joe Pardi
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+1
I should be able to choose between Left Align / Right Align / Alternate Alignment. -
abuzar hamza
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coming form slack background , left right make reading hard.
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RC
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Upvote
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Todd Zircher
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The left/right thing is so juvenile. It also increases eye fatigue since you are scanning back and forth.
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EricW
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I like the left right but some of my users dont. Dont be like apple, give them a choose in the settings ui. Seems a easy thing given its just CSS.
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Me
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Oh my god, YES. Our company's now forcing us to move to Teams and I detest the alignment. Please give us the option to choose which suits us best! THanks!
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Anonymous
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I seocnd that:
It is not easy to read chat messages with the alternating left/right on a PC screen.
CISCO Jabber allows you to chose the layout. Would be nice to have the same in the Teams chat on PC. -
Chika
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On a smartphone this might look "kewl" but even Skype allows you to switch this off. So does Cisco Jabber. The whole display is far too busy and needs a rethink.
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Gail Parsloe
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I was in a group meeting and chat with more than 10 people. Everyone else's chat messages were aligned left. Mine aligned right, as if replying the person above me. Why was it just my messages that were messed up?
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Tom Hogevoll
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I completely agree. I prefer all left aligned chat for both parties.
Microsoft at least give us the ability to choose. At least Cisco Jabber lets us choose left-right or left-only.
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Anonymous
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I have the same problem, my company is moving to teams now and forcing me to use teams. It is driving me crazy this issue and I cant believe it has not been fixed yet.
Even Skype for bussiness is left aligned.
I dont understand how it could be this issue has been here for years and it is still there... Someone shall be fired from Microsoft.
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Kent
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Agree. I will not be using Teams for any type of chats. I will use Cisco Jabber until it is removed from my company network.
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Dave
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It is not easy to read chat messages with the alternating left/right on a PC screen.
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Anonymous
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Left align chat message is important one. This feature should be added in MS Teams
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Chumley
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I wish I could upvote this 1000x. I was evaluating Teams for the first time today. Was liking it pretty well until I noticed this mixed left/right alignment. It's horrid, and seems very unprofessional! This alone is enough to make me want to stay with Slack.