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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Suphatra
198 comments
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me
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Microsoft Teams development team - there are over 950 votes for this. What's the plan to get this done?
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Shane Curtis
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When can we expect this to be completed?
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Joe
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It is unbelieveable how failed this migration from Skype for Business to Teams is. This is yet another basic feature that was existing in both Lync and Skype for Business, that, in their infinite wisdom, Microsoft's Teams team decided not to port to Teams. I still remember when the corporate operations pushed on us Teams as a wholesale replacement for Skype for Business, and to each question they were saying "yes, it is exactly like Skype, but much better". I am sure that some Microsoft's managers got bonuses for bright idea of accelerating project delivery by delivering a product with reduced feature set. Come on Microsoft, you used to know better. You were big mature company always improving its products, and not making them less usable.
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TG
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pretty ridiculous to still be unable to do a simple copy/paste of a conversation thread
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Anonymous
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Adding my voice in support
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Krassimir Boyanov
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Adding my voice in support of the rest here to implement easy copy and paste of the conversation
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Rockridge commented
Found this as a result of running into the issue myself. My company is incorporating Teams more and more. This is sad considering this feature is available in any other chat interface I have used in the past.
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Anonymous
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Will there ever be a response from MS as per this issue from 17 October 2017 ????
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Anonymous
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is there any update on this request?
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Jack Rose
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2 years later....
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Keith
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BTW, this was already available in Skype.
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Keith
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I'd like to be able to select an entire conversation so I can copy and paste it into another document. Even better, a "Save As..." feature.
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Ruth Jennaway
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Any update @Suphatra ?
A number of my clients are now reorganising their teams and channels, and not being able to migrate or copy conversations into a new Team is a real blocker to moving to a more logical structure within Teams.
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Scott
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I struggled with this today. I found that no matter how many messages I selected, only a certain amount would actually select. After trail and error and discovered that by copying smaller sections I was able to get them all copied. It seemed there is some sort of copy buffer limit.
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Anonymous
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Honestly this is not fixed yet and it totally sucks...
Basic 101 functionality to select conversation text and copy it. Will MS fix this BS right now please.
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Roy Faltesek
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Don't overlook the selection bug, where you can't select a large section of conversation, as that will be VERY helpful for copying a subsection of a conversation.
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Anonymous
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yes a very much needed feature
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Jonathan Herschel
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Any updates? we need as well as we are acquiring another company and no way to migrate chat, but users were using CHAT in teams as main way to communicate
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Ishtiaque Ahmed
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Any updates since November 01, 2018? Thanks.
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Patrick Muylaert
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Any updates?