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.
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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
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Dan Goes commented
Agreed, this is incredibly annoying. Please fix this.
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Dennis Andersen
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If I weren't forced to use Teams, this would be a deal breaker. Hate that I can't copy conversations. Even from a web browser session!
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cbarrett37
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This is a serious deal breaker. Please fix copy functionality ASAP.
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Anonymous
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Multiple times a day I need to quickly relay a conversation (or portion of one) from Teams into a ticket, or an email, or another conversation in Teams- and every single one of those times I experience the frustration of being unable to do so. It becomes such an irritation, especially compounded by the fact that every other enterprise chat application I've used has been able to handle this.
Is Microsoft truly not able to implement a functionality that has been around since Larry Tesler figured it out in the mid-70's?!
PLEASE get your copy/paste functionality in order.
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Malcolm McRoberts
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There should also be an option to sent a conversation to OneNote.
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Andreas
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Andreas
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Andreas
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Dave Abernathy
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This really would be useful to document a collaboration on a task
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Anonymous
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This is a major flaw in usability. I find the need to do this daily, and it's frustrating.
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Jen
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At our company, 100% of its employees telecommute. This makes our preferred method of live communication to be chat. Sometimes we need to copy snippets of a conversation into a work order, and it is SO difficult to copy text from Teams. Sometimes a person's name won't even appear above their text, once pasted, and the information has to be recreated. Please test this for yourself - copy and paste a few lines of a conversation, and please fix this!!!! Thanks!
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Anonymous
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The lack of this feature will make me move back to Skype until it is fixed.
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Anon
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Major Inefficiency
Need to be able to select multiple entries or save chat in an editable format.