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.
Karen Cooper
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James
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Fully Agree it is an unprofessional idea.
Not been able to check a message before sending it is just plain daft. -
Anonymous
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I agree completely! The Teams App on Mac behaves in this respect different from Teams operated within a browser window (e.g. Safari). This is irritating.
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[Deleted User]
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three **** years and not a progress already?
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Takuma Kawamura
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It is a very serious issue when typing with Japanese because IME uses Enter key for complete a conversion.
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No
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Press Ctrl+Shft+X
This will expand the compose window to the rich text format (you can also click the A with brush icon). Now you can use Enter as normal and Ctrl+Enter will send like most other apps.
Come on Microsoft... you can do better than make people find workarounds!! Make it a choice please.
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[Deleted User]
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The answer given below does not work. I have just downloaded the latest version of Skype BUT THERE IS NO FORMAT BAR!
The solution which ACTUALLY works is:
Left click on the Menu - the three dots to the right of your user name.
Click on 'Settings'
Select 'Messaging' and click on that.
In the middle it says 'Send message with Enter Key'
Move the switch to 'Off'Hey presto!
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Anonymous
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Top left of the screen, to the right of your name you should see three dots '. . .'
Left click on them and then click on 'Settings'
Go down to 'Messaging' and click on that.
In the middle it says 'Send message with Enter Key'
Move the switch to 'off'
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Jeff S.
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I couldn't agree more! I write this after I just accidentally sent a message by hitting the enter key, which I did as a reflex. Fortunately it was nothing that caused any problems, but it's only a matter of time before I get burned. Please make this change!!!
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Anonymous
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Please make this change, I have been in trouble many times.
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Dan Rissin
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A stupid feature. There is a button to sent the mail. The enter/carriage return has been used to create a new line since the qwerty keyboard was invented. If Microsoft would stop trying to make office work like a smart phone they would do a better job or providing business software.
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Anonymous
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C'mon! this sucks compared to Slack. Please provide the feature to disable sending on Enter key press (or to specify a hotkey of my choice)
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MMarch
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Please please make this change. Slack had this as a toggle option so users can have either to suit their preference.
I'm finding hitting return accidentally will post a message due to fat finger syndrome which br
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Mr.Louis
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The best solution to this problem, until Microsoft adds an option to disable "Enter Sends Message", had been posted by Mr.Luigi below (https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/users/980035318-mr-luigi).
If you click the "Format" button below the text box, a formatting toolbar will appear and then you can press Enter as much as you want without sending the message. This is what I always do when I have a long message to type. Just click the "Send" button to send the message.
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Anonymous
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Please make this change.
I use enter as a carriage return as it is used in MS Word and other office products. The inconsistency is frustrating and confusing. This comment uses enter
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Anonymous
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Without sounding too much of a pedant (or a GOM), this seems like a design feature introduced by someone from the "stream of consciousness" generation. We should probably be grateful that typing a full stop/period isn't taken as signifying end of message, triggering an immediate "send" command.
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Anonymous
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Completely agree. Microsoft, by changing the default function of a commonly used key must have been picked up in consumer tests before the software was released. By advertising the software as professional but having the true possibility of inadvertently sending out non-professional messages via teams when carriage return has been pressed before the message was meant to be sent is contradictory. I have read the previous posts by the team in its replies but at no point is a reason given why the change was made for the carriage return key. This I find inexcusable. The latter should have been/will have been picked up during the software development stage so the justification has been made internally. It would be interesting to publicly read this as I believe a major error has occurred.
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Yolanda
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Why does the "enter" key work as a carriage return on my IPAD and phone but not on my desktop?
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Ian B
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Totally Agree. "Enter" should be carriage return new line. This is very annoying!
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Mr. Luigi
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Apologies if somewhere in this thread the following is posted.
Yes, there is salvation from having to shift-return. Here is how you do it. When you go to type your message, first click on the format key just below the message line (see picture). You will get “richer” formatting options and you can hit enter all you want at that point. When you are finished typing and want to send the message, hit the arrow at the bottom right of the message box.
Apologies again if the whole point of the original poster's question was to be able to do generate a carriage return in a post without having to activate rich formatting.
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Neva
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Any progress on this? I would like to disable the return to send in Microsoft Teams Chat, and would rather just use the send icon below the text box.
