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Quote chat message in reply on desktop
When chatting on the mobile version, I can tap-hold a chat message and get a "reply" option that quotes the original message in the reply. How can I do this with the desktop app?
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- So it begins... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=81113
Where's my desktop reply button?
Lele_Dumbo Exactly - MS need to sort out some basic functionality.
From St Google:
How to quote a message in Microsoft Teams- Copy the message.
- On your keyboard press “Shift” + “>”
- Paste the original message and then type your own message.
- Press Enter twice and to type your message after the quote.
I have found a way you can quote messages. You have to copy the part you want to quote. You paste. Then you click on the A with the brush then there is " button and it quotes your bit.
- Copy the message
- Click on Format located in the text box
- On the toolbar click on Quote
- Paste the original message
- Press Enter twice and to type your message after the quote
I was about to suggest better search capability and chat downloading but hey... Microsoft hasn't included reply function yet so I drop my expectation.
It's 2020 year end and Microsoft still hasn't provide a better Quote message reply for Desktop app.
The replies in threaded conversations are organized under the initial conversation and are easier to follow.
Find the conversation thread you want to reply to.
Select Reply, add your message, and press Enter.
Still waiting for this feature...
- In our tenant it is now available for a few users. So I think it will be available by the end of this year for everyone.
I sincerely hope this means they will be rolling out the feature in the next update. We are migrating to Teams, coming from using WhatsApp for intraoffice communication. WhatsApp desktop has it, and it's an obvious feature.
Microsoft sure can do better but...manageable.
Any ideas when this feature will be available in its proper form? It's since been on Skype strangely.
A colleague showed me how to do this.
Steps:
Put your cursor in the Team's Chat box.
Press Shift and > (greater than)You'll see a grey box in the Team's Chat box.Copy and paste what you want to reply to.
Press Enter, the cursor advances to the next line.
Press Enter again, your cursor advances out of the reply box.
Type your reply.
mrs99mrs99
As of today 2021-Sep, this feature with ">" works only in the main Teams window, but doesn't in the individual chat windows. At least with the Teams version that my company uses right now. So I would say this workaround has a small impact.Now the reply quote msg function have in under business tenant MS Teams
no need copy paste and manual reply quote now 🙂
- Thank you very much, it is the best solution of all those described so far, to see when Microsoft incorporates it in the same way as in the mobile
Hi josepfeb SLiddicoat kfraysur mrs99mrs99 and all:
Use the shortcuts keys work to do this: How to quote a message in Microsoft Teams - HANDS ON Teams (handsontek.net)
