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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Thank you for your suggestion! We really appreciate the feedback and idea. We have reviewed this request and started working on it. I’ll let you know as it nears completion.
Suphatra
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Anonymous
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NIce ****...maybe next year ?
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Anonymous
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Can you enable saved chat messages to be posted in team channels? Seems like that could work no?
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Anonymous
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Any update on this?
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Anonymous
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Hello @Microsoft is anyone listening????
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Anonymous
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It's still not possible to copy more than one message. Are you still working on it? It's been 18 months now. Does it usually take this long?!?!
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Shawn vahdat
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This is important to my business as well, please let us know when this function be available
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birgit.mueller
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It ist more important for business to have all the funktions like foreward, cc, bc etc on conversations
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Ray
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To the poster regarding 'pop out chat'...this still does not capture the entire chat history...It looks at though MS is caching chat text. Unless I am missing something, this technique will not work.
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anoniempje
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When is this ready? you started worlking on this almos 2 years ago…...
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Anonymous
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This function can be used by clicking on the 'Pop out chat' option on the top right of the Teams chat.
Then, CTRL-A in the pop out window and CTRL-C to copy all text. CTRL-V to paste.
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Chris Hutchinson
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I've been working very hard to get my company to use Microsoft Teams and the other Microsoft tools much more. I'm going to have a really hard time getting my company to fully buy in to Teams if we can't do this though. Pity!
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Voter
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This is an absolute joke.... typical Microsoft, May 2020... a chat app made to "take over the world", no copy and paste and no forward. RIDICULOUS!
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Raju
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A feature that has been requested since Sep 2017 and the only response we have is from a year later in Nov 2018. Does it really take this long to get 1 feature enabled ? a feature that is being requested for by so many users ?
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Jeremy Martin
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yes please enable this! thank you
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franck
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Hello ...
Yes when do you activate this option !!! as impossible to transfer a message or a dialog to another person... or share a dialog.
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Anonymous
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@Suphatra Still working on this feature? When will it be finished?
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Ana Margarida Silva commented
This would be really important within a meeting! Only available for Organizers / Presenters' profiles. Sometimes there are a few topics mentioned which need a follow-up afterwards, and... it's sometimes not easy to take notes and identify comments with participants during the meeting.
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Ray
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So I was all excited about a new feature that came out in early March 2020, Teams integration with Outlook. But much to my dismay, it only is able to capture a single message to Outlook, still not the entire chat session...this so misses the point...
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Ray
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I don't know what is more frustrating: the fact that this key feature still does not work, or that Suphatra's response above is allowed to stay posted from November 2018, indicating a solution is coming...
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Anonymous
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I found LMB click on start of convestaion and using shift+ down arrow (can only click down arrow 3 to 5 times) will only capture a few back and forth mssgs, you then have to copy in sections the whole conversation which also duplicates alot. The breaks of which you cannot just continue where you left off, kind of have to copy the last one in first cut and paste, and then copy next section and so forth. So the last and first parts of msg of the copy and pastes get duplicated, a painful process. You can paste into notepad or word, then edit and then copy and paste the whole thing. But, want to preserve the integrity and context of conversations and this defeats that purpose.