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cosmoKenney
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Nov 04, 2021

Disable thumbnail/preview of any link contained in what you paste into a Teams WIKI Page?

I'm in the process of migrating a lot of short documents and other notes from Trello cards into a teams wiki page. I'm copying and pasting the formatted text into the destination wiki page. But, ever...
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Apr 05, 2022
Yes please. I'd like to completely disable this behaviour. It clutters the UI and doesn't add any value for me.
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    cosmoKenney
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    Apr 05, 2022

    drewnoakes I've had so many problems with the WIKI product that I started asking questions on Reddit. And the overwhelming response was to use One Note in Teams instead of the WIKI product. I can tell you that the One Note in Teams is okay, but not great. Biggest problem is formatting text, especially for Code Blocks (for programmers). But it is hands down better then WIKI. I cannot recommend either if you have a lot of documentation to write. But for snippets of code or short paragraphs the One Note interface is okay.

    Its a total shame to see Microsoft producing such sub-par products compared to Word and Excel. 

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