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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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  • Marco Van der Eecken commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Alex how is this on backlog? This is probably one of the most important features in a business chat where I can make sure context is kept if more than one message is sent.

    Even a partial quote of previous message would be great.

    Having to copy paste it into a quote > box is just dumb.

  • Kenji Prahyudi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Oh Microsoft. This can be done from mobile app, and the desktop app is even already able to show the "replied" message when someone replied from mobile app. Back-end functionality = done. Front-end view = done. I'm really sure this won't take so much effort to make it available on desktop app. Y'all sometimes funny.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Alex With almost 16,000 votes and almost 1800 comments ... what DOES it take to get something off the backlog ?? Just asking!

  • Hariharan R commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    MS Team,

    Any update on Chat Reply option in MS Teams Desktop App, i could see same is available in Mobile App. Reply is very very essential feature and not sure why you ppl didn't thought through this in first release of Desktop App and hope you will add Reply option ASAP. Since because Reply option is not available in MS Teams, people moving/using other messaging platform like Skype, Slack etc.,

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Surprising how we missed this basic feature. Look forward to this in the enhanced version.

  • Dave Hoder commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The lack of a Reply in Chat trains users to reply using the bottom "Start a new conversation" text box. This carries over to channel posts where they fragment conversations by replying using the same method.
    I would go so far as to say get rid of that bottom text box altogether and add a deliberate button for starting a new topic in both Chat and Post. Users need a more obvious way to keep things together.

  • Mike Sam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hopefully, it can release asap since the function was enabled in the mobile version.

  • Chaitanya Appana commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Much awaited feature!!!!

    for now below workaround works well --

    Njabulo Kubheka commented · May 27, 2020 03:05 ·

    1. Copy the Message you want to reply to. (Together with the persons name and time if you want)
    2. Go to where you type the new message, before you paste do "Shift + >" and it will create a small grey like bar,
    3. Paste the message you want to reply to,
    4. Press "Enter" button twice to leave the grey bra to a space under it,
    5 . And type your reply and send.

  • Joel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It must be the people at MS don't use Teams. I can't understand why this isn't done yet

  • Ariel Villalobos commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Njabulo Kubheka option is valid but merely sthetic, it doesn't have the follow message option, it is useless in long conversations

  • Lee commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have users asking for this feature all the time including just this morning!

  • Njabulo Kubheka commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You can reply into a specific text by doing the below:

    1. Copy the Message you want to reply to. (Together with the persons name and time if you want)
    2. Go to where you type the new message, before you paste do "Shift + >" and it will create a small grey like bar,
    3. Paste the message you want to reply to,
    4. Press "Enter" button twice to leave the grey bra to a space under it,
    5 . And type your reply and send.

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