Ability to add (copy/paste) a list of people to meeting
In outlook I'm able to copy-paste meeting participants from one meeting to another. In Teams I have to add them all manually. It's not convenient, could you please fix it somehow?

39 comments
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James Green commented
There is a WORKAROUND. If you make the meeting in Teams, and then go to your web calendar, you can paste the participants there, no problem. Just the Teams app that seems to have this problem
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Anonymous commented
We must really get our leaders to stop investing in products with such poor functionality! Come on Microsoft - you can do so much better than this!?
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Carl Christensen commented
I have TEAMS meetings twice a week with all 200 + of my students and every time I have to type, type, type them all in. Makes me want to give up on TEAMs Come on MS you should be better than this.
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Jing commented
Same issue. I had to put in 30 student names every time we met. It's ridiculous!
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MS commented
I want to add my voice to this. It is hard to understand why this is not doable yet. I have to create occasional meetings with ~60 people invited and every time I have to do it manually.
I feel that implementing this basic and obvious functionality should have higher priority than many other things. -
Dave commented
Agree - not just inconvenient but a big missing piece of functionality.
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Bryan commented
This is so frustrating and makes no sense.
Either allow us to copy the addressee list or let us copy the meeting in the Teams calendar so that it can be modified in its new location. I can edit the original meeting, but that sends an Update rather than a new meeting request which also removes the original from the diary - not good when this is part of a governance element demonstrating frequency of meetings etc. -
Danny commented
I want them to join my team without me having to type in every email.
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Danny commented
Can you copy the link from a team and send it in and outlook email to member to request to join a team?
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Amanda Hopkins commented
There doesn't seem to be a simple 'I agree' or even a like button, so here's my narrative saying IT'S MORE THAN TIME YOU SORTED THIS, MICROSOFT — it's supposed to be professional-level software!
I'd also like to express my gratitude to those people in the comments who have posted a list of what they've tried so I don't have to waste even more of my time trying these things out for myself only to discover they don't work. Many thanks.
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Geordie_Geoff commented
TIME FOR AN ANSWER PREFERABLY A FIX FROM MS - Donald Trump CAPS!
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Anonymous commented
This is ridiculous. I thought I was doing something wrong. Now, I see, it's a huge fail from Microsoft. WTG Team.
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Ryan Spooner commented
How is this still a thing? The most basic of functionality, to copy and paste a list of email addresses to the invitee list of a Teams meeting and have it handle that, rather than treating the past and one single person with a massively long email address.
I've tried everything to format the list to make it treat it as separate people. Paste into notepad, ad commas and semicolons after each address, etc. Nothing Works.
Pretty disappointing Microsoft!
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Tom commented
First time commenting on a Teams issue...this is one of the most frustrating. Fix now please!
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Julie commented
It is highly inconvenient to have to manually enter names in for every single meeting. We have cohorts of new hires that need to be added to multiple events over the course of several months and it is incredibly time consuming.
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Anonymous commented
Come on Microsoft, if you can not copy/paste participants into teams, then it's useless. I need to manually add every user for our weekly meetings and it takes a lot of time. Even the cheapest email programs back in 1982 were able to copy/paste. It's 2021 not 1982. Please fix this issue.
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E O´Flynn commented
I agree with the comments about this needing to be fixed. A full timetable of 35 class periods, across nine class groups, thirty students in each, but I have to list every single student in every single class period instead of simply copying and pasting a list of attendees from one class to another. I could write them out with a fountain pen or chisel them on a rock faster.
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Lisa Abney commented
Please fix this.
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Please commented
Still?!?!
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K. Collie commented
One month shy of two years .... This is an issue that NEEEDS to be addressed! 148 votes is just from the people who took the time to complain about this.... not even a tithe of those who are experiencing the inconvenience.