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Reply to specific message in chat on desktop app

Having the ability to reply to specific messages in a chat on the desktop app. This is available on mobile today.

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Sam shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
on the backlog  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

Thank you for your continued feedback. As many people have pointed out, this is available on mobile today. Support for replying to a specific message is on the backlog for desktop. I’ll let you know when we have progress to share. Thanks.

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  • George commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    a workaround is to copy the message and paste it after a > symbol

    and yes, this is very inconvenient

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is absolutely a necessity. Basicallly it is the only missed item so companies can move from WhatsApp to Teams. Of course one can use the teams to group messages by topic, but we must acknowledge, at least in Brazil, WhatsApp became the text standard. To replace it in business, we must have, at least, the important features and that is one of them.

    Just to incentivate developer team to just stop everything and get it done:

    1) In Android it already works (automatic creation of quoted text + link to replied post), so no need to invent the wheel;

    2) Desktop and other plataforms already support showing it (done!)

    3) There is already a context menu to each repliable post, so just include a new item with the already existant function (also done!)

    4) Please

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very surprising - that this not there from the scratch and even more surprising is that this is not being picked up even after so many has requested...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ken from UPMC
    This is a VERY IMPORTANT feature which helps keep some type of organization in the chats. It helps group topics together. I see that the Teams Channel Posts have this feature already, Replying to Posts and putting a Title on the post. Just need to add it to the Chats

  • Shahin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How do you make a messaging app without this option? This is pretty much a no-brainer, and honestly it's not even that difficult to implement. Like, come on, just add this feature already.

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