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do not send messages when <enter> is pressed. change to another shortcut key.

I have to edit my messages several times because every time I press enter for a Carriage Return, it sends instead. I know the shortcut key for Carriage Return is SHIFT+ENTER but its not very intuitive and makes for miscommunication. Thank you for your consideration.

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  • Nate commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed here as well. I frequently hit <enter> by mistake when going for an apostrophe.

  • Benoit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    "Disable send on Enter" is an option available in Skype. So it should easy for you guys to add it to Teams!! Please make it available on MacOS as well...

  • Sarah Frampton commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As per previous comments it is not always intuitive to use the shift + enter for a carriage return, and when sending messages it can be annoying to be the recipient of 'hello' and then having to wait ages for the actual message, or as sender, accidentally hitting enter for a carriage return and its half a message. Its not professional looking !

  • Ron commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I add my vote to this thread.
    As a professional, dealing with professionals, it is incredibly important to 1) check what I am sending before sending it and 2) make sure what I send portrays a professional image.
    Having half typed messages sending themselves with typos and missed endings is NOT portraying the image I need.
    This is meant to be a business tool, not a social media chat tool. I can't use it as a business tool in its current form without retraining to never hit 'enter' on this platform only.

  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Press this, press that. We only want to type a [whole] message quickly and I preferably would rather it didn't send a message at every CR. Even the mobile app doesn't do that!

    Vote Now!

    PLEASE!!!

  • Fran commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There is a "Format" icon underneath where you type your message in Teams (look for the capital A and pen icon), just click on it and you can type your message, press enter as much as you need to to create paragraphs without sending your message. You need to click on the send button to finally send it. Even if you don't send th emesage straight away it will stay there as a draft until you are ready to send... Well at least this is available in Desktop don't know about mobile or online...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If you press ctrl+shift+x it expands the message box to be more like an email, here enter is a new line and ctrl+enter is send.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I went on-line to search for a way to fix this and came across this. I agree wholeheartedly that this should be a user configuration. It is very non-intuitive to have to remember Shift+Enter each time I want to create a new line!

  • Mark commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The lack of 'enter key preferences' is not only SUPER ANNOYING but what has been adopted is a change away from at least 25 years of using Microsoft products (at least since Word 95) and is absolutely hopeless. It makes the author of the Chat look stupid and does not reflect on the poor implementation Microsoft have undertaken.

  • Anika commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We've appreciated the updates recently (including multiple faces in the camera screen time). The choice for enter/return key would be a real bonus.

  • cburtenshaw commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add 'enter/return key preferences' in Teams. it's SUPER annoying that I can't use the return key as intended and am constantly accidentally posting unfinished messages

  • Scotty commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree, super annoying. This should be switched off by default with a configuration that can turn it on for team, channel , user.

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