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Add a Print feature to the PDF file viewer

Currently when you click on a PDF within teams it displays it in teams' built-in PDF viewer - but there is no option to print from here.

To print you either have to download the file and open it in an external PDF viewer application or click 'open online' and print it from your browser. (or open the sharepoint in file explorer...)

It would be great if a 'Print' button could instead be added to the PDF file viewer taskbar (see attached artists' rendition). Printing a PDF is a staple everyday task performed by countless people around the world.

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  • Mike Orton commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We absolutely need the feature to open PDFs in our PDF editor app directly from the Teams client. What are you doing enforcing your own (featureless) viewer app.
    As we currently publish all our documents in PDF format move to Teams filing has halted.

  • Wildcat22 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Excellent idea !!! My Department Chair just sent my Annual Academic Report and I could not find a way to open within Teams. Such a small thing, such huge headaches !!

  • ThatGuyAgain commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Microsoft, why did you build a viewer into the app without adding the simple ability to print? I discourage people from printing, but there's no reason to add such hurdles for content we've deliberately published for ad-hoc printing.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    serve la stampa pdf da team o meglio una app apposita per la posta elettronica. ma almeno stampare

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is an absolute must have - a very high priority for us. Users are not adopting Teams due to such simple limitations.

  • Anthony Harrow commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Simple feature that saves a boat load of time.

    Who would have guess a print feature would be needed in a document viewer??

  • Ginger Sharp commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is nuts. I have been looking around for ten minutes and finally landed on this community to learn there is no print function for PDFs in Teams.

  • AF commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1 & 1/2 years this feed started and no results. Truly ridiculous it's this old of a complaint and still no print feature. Even to print a document in Word has to be downloaded first.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, same as almost all the comments. How can you not be able to print PDF in Teams; such a basic table-stake function.

  • slp commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This should be pretty basic - especially when you are trying to involve older team member that might not be used to the format. Not being able to do something as simple as print is a barrier to adaptation.

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