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Meeting Notes Tab disappeared - replaced by 'Recap'
I have been using the Meeting Notes Tab to capture a running history of all project related discussions. As at this week, the Meeting Notes Tab has disappeared from my list of Tabs and a new Tab ...
BekaP510 Hey, there are couple of things that may be happening here.
First, yes, Meeting Recap is the new way to access the summary of your meetings. If you have Teams Premium, the additional Intelligent Meeting Recap is brilliant.
- More info here: Meeting recap in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support
Second, meeting notes are also being replaced with Microsoft Loop components as 'Collaborative Meeting Notes'. This may be the case for your organisation.
- If you have an old meeting with meeting notes, there should be a banner that lets you download a copy of them that looks like this:
- If you weren't the meeting organiser, you may need to get them to download them first or give you permission.
- More info here: Now in Public preview & Targeted release: Collaborative meeting notes in Teams meetings - Microsoft Community Hub
If you're still stuck, you may be able to find your old meeting notes as .mht files in your OneDrive under My files > Microsoft Teams Data > Wiki
Opening your meeting notes .mht files
Here are a few options to open your meeting notes .mht files that you've downloaded:
Open your .mht file in Microsoft Word
This is pretty handy if you need it in an editable format and want to save it as a .doc file
- Right-click on the .mht file
- Select Open with
- Select Word (or if it's not available, select "Choose another app" and then select Word)
You could also open it up in Notepad or any other HTML editor if you want to see the code.
Open your .mht file in Microsoft Edge in IE Mode
To open .mht file in Microsoft Edge, enable Internet Explorer mode (IE Mode)
- Select Settings and more (...) at the top-right
- Select Settings
- Select Default Browser
- For "Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode (IE mode)" choose Allow from the drop-down menu
- Select Restart
When you open your .mht file, it should display properly and a banner will tell you that IE mode was used to open the file.
Open the file from OneDrive online
This is a bit of a funny one. If you have your .mht files in your Microsoft Teams Data/Wiki folder, when you select the file to open it (not download it) from OneDrive online, it downloads it as a .eml file instead and opens in Outlook 🤷🏻
Hopefully one of those options works for you. I think the Word option is probably the simplest and makes it easier to manage the meeting notes. You can set Word to be the default application for .mht files if that option works for you.
19/8/23 Update: adding this Microsoft Support article for more guidance: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/access-wiki-meeting-notes-in-microsoft-teams-a15eb03c-9f47-4ec7-a89c-91d9da9ee1e4
kirutherford BekaP510 That's not good. It could be an issue with the program you're using to open it.
Here are a few options to open your meeting notes .mht files that you've downloaded:
Open your .mht file in Microsoft Word
This is pretty handy if you need it in an editable format and want to save it as a .doc file
- Right-click on the .mht file
- Select Open with
- Select Word (or if it's not available, select "Choose another app" and then select Word)
You could also open it up in Notepad or any other HTML editor if you want to see the code.
Open your .mht file in Microsoft Edge in IE Mode
To open .mht file in Microsoft Edge, enable Internet Explorer mode (IE Mode)
- Select Settings and more (...) at the top-right
- Select Settings
- Select Default Browser
- For "Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode (IE mode)" choose Allow from the drop-down menu
- Select Restart
When you open your .mht file, it should display properly and a banner will tell you that IE mode was used to open the file.
Open the file from OneDrive online
This is a bit of a funny one. If you have your .mht files in your Microsoft Teams Data/Wiki folder, when you select the file to open it (not download it) from OneDrive online, it downloads it as a .eml file instead and opens in Outlook 🤷🏻
Hopefully one of those options works for you. I think the Word option is probably the simplest and makes it easier to manage the meeting notes. You can set Word to be the default application for .mht files if that option works for you.
Good luck!
That worked HelloBenTeoh! I had to manually search in the available apps list, as the default apps were set to browsers in my company, but it went perfectly.
Ok! I'll save the files in SharePoint and use them for reference only. I'll move to tracking meeting notes, key agreements and actions in Confluence now.
Ok! I'll save the files in SharePoint and use them for reference only. I'll move to tracking meeting notes, key agreements and actions in Confluence now.
BekaP510 phew! I'll update my original reply with the added instructions.
It may be worth talking to your helpdesk to get them to do some messaging about this too. There could be others in the same boat as you.
HelloBenTeoh Very useful information as I too had the same issue. Recap has appeared as the replacement tab which is a very different feature to meeting notes from what I understand. I don't think I have access to collaborative meeting notes as I can't find it. Is there any other alternative to use to record meeting content? Many thanks H
harrietrad Hey, no worries. You're right - recap is a way to gather all the information about the meetings (recording, transcript, shared files etc) and the new collaborative meeting notes are replacing the previous notes
If you open the meeting in Teams, the collaborative meeting notes should sit below the meeting information in the 'Details' tab.
When you're in the meeting, there should be a new 'Notes' app in the top
The Microsoft Support pages now reference the new notes: Take meeting notes in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support
If they're not available yet, I'd suggest using OneDrive for now until you have access to the new collaborative meeting notes.
