Allow copying whole chat conversations
Currently, it's not possible to select & copy more than one message in a chat. When I try to select two or more messages, the focus stays on the first message making it impossible to copy whole chat.
There are some really ugly workarounds like: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Copying-conversations/td-p/62849 which I don't consider a solution of the situation.
I want to be able to select multiple messages at once and copy them by hitting CTRL+C.
Petr Svihlik
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346 comments
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Anonymous
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Fundamental weakness of Teams. Can't think of anything more important that needs to be included in the next fix.
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Anonymous
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Do we have any update on this one, this one of the essential option needed for us.
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Randolph F. Handel
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It would appear that an easy solution would have been to copy from the immersive reader, but alas, I see no way to do that
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Anonymous
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Please make it possible to copy conversations or save as or export to file.
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Jacky L.
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Please add support of copying multiple message, it’s essential for messaging tool.
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Jess
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Need to be able to copy discussion re: solutions into incident tickets - directly as block of text, or export to PDF or Word doc. Currently we end up doing screenshots IM convos and it's ugly, and difficult to read.
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Anonymous
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We often have discussions during incidents in Teams. We need to be able to capture these conversations so that we can put them into our incident records in ServiceNow. Copying and pasting is really ugly. Being able to export to a PDF would be fantastic.
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M
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The more option on a chat does not allow to copy full conversation. I have attached a screen shot. Also, would have been nice if there is a small chat window that comes with the mail as in gmail (hangout) or a separate chat plugin that is handy.
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James
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Please consider this another vote for this (or something similar) feature. (My 200+ employee company - CMR Surgical - are currently using MS Teams.)
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Keith
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Please implement this soon. I don't know why it's not easier to copy things! It's right there, but it won't keep what you highlight selected for more than 1 second.
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Ulf
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DoctorF
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If you don't put this back my roleplaying group will be moving to a different platform. We need to be able to copy whole chats!
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cw
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I need to be able to select a thread to save important messages
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Anonymous
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It's sort of incredible in 2018 that a messaging application doesn't allow for copying and pasting of messages? Please, please, add this "back to basics" functionality in ASAP. I, and I assume just about every other user of this collaboration tool, often have chat history with individuals where we then want to share that with a different audience. To not be able to simply copy/paste what was said is a huge, glaring gap in functionality.
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Anonymous
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Currently, if I highlight a section of a conversation to copy, and that section is longer than a screen size, it looses focus before I can right-click and copy. I have to copy smaller sections at a time and piece them together.
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Anonymous
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Same request but with more votes - please add votes so it moves up the list: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/20369608-copy-paste-is-tempermental
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Anonymous
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Same request but with more votes - please add votes so it moves up the list: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/20369608-copy-paste-is-tempermental
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Anonymous
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Same request but with more votes - please add votes so it moves up the list: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/20369608-copy-paste-is-tempermental
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Nikki Barnes
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I used this feature every day in Skype for Business, and the absence of it in Teams makes my work life much more difficult!
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Anonymous
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Super basic - and yet super critical for SO many items. Please get a fix in place for this. Migrating users from Slack to Teams and it's already a bit of an uphill battle. Things like this are absolute momentum killers