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Reply on Desktop App?
Hello, may I know why it's 2020 and replying to a comment is still NOT A FEATURE on desktop app?
Why things like video background made the cut but not Replying To A Comment on Desktop?
This is 2020 and literally every single communication app can do that, but not a chat app geared toward enterprises?
- I don't work for Microsoft, but if you'd like to try out the "quoted reply" it's now available in Public Preview.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-public-preview/now-in-public-preview-quoted-reply-for-desktop-web-coming-soon/m-p/2761594
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- It's working for me since last week (September 17th, 2021). Thanks for this release!
- My Teams desktop client with version 1.4.00.22472 (64-bit). It was last updated on 8/30/2021. Still not see the option to reply.. 😞
- eh... disappointment face.
- The best part is that it is 2021 now and this is still an issue
- In training, Microsoft reps said it's available desktop.... maybe there's something only Microsoft employees have??
Because it doesn't exist on my windows or mac computers...
Hello depwnz Teams now has the ability to reply to an individual chat message. If you click on the three dots in the comment you want to reply to, you should see "reply" as an option. It copies the original message and then posts the reply under it. Happens in meeting chats too.
What OS are you using? Since the "reply to message" feature started rolling out to tenants a few weeks ago, and you don't have it in the desktop app, then are you using the Mac version? This feature is available in mobile today and it is in progress for the desktop apps.
- I'm using Win 10 and updated Teams. Looks like the feature has not been rolled out to my laptop (or all of my colleagues') yet.
Besides, clicking on the dot --> select reply is too time-wasting. Can they just add a simply reply button to a text? There are just so many ways to implement this single most used and most important communication feature. I mean, everything we do on a chat app is replying to someone, isn't it.
- It's July 10th, 2021 and I still cannot reply to message on the desktop version of Teams.
I repeat, CANNOT REPLY TO A MESSAGE in the second half of 2021.
incomprehensible
the company is moving to Slack and also recommending all peers to do the same - I wish the Teams product group does all feature planning strictly over a teams call. They will automatically know the shortcomings!! Oh yes, have mock session of the same topic in Slack and Discord
- I wonder if Mr Nadella or any PM or any staff at Microsoft ever have to reply to a message on desktop Teams.
I have to do that 200 times a day and it's been driving me crazy for 2 years.
here is a great little hack I found for the time being.
Copy the message u want to "reply to", including your name!
Go to the message bar ( Type a new message ).
press shift + >.
paste it in.
Press enter twice.
write your reply.
Send!- Sorry my friend, this is a feature you can do on Skype or any chat app like 10 years ago. Why do you have to get by like that on a communication tool for enterprise and project management? Utterly failure by development team.
- Just no, this 'hack' makes me sad :(. I mean hack this, hack that, tip here tip there. MS just need to pull their finger out. Why on earth would I want to make 6 actions just to replace something that should have been released years ago!
I suddenly started to see the reply to messages option in 1:1 discussion in teams. see below
Version 1.4.00.14623 (64-bit)-E. It was last updated on 6/2/2021.
- I think you are using the mobile version; I am running 1.4.00.16575 (64 bit). It was last updated on 7/3/2021
I wish MS does not ASK their customers to explain WHY this is important.
The teams customers will appreciate if MSFT admits this oversight and make a funny video of what is a classic "Spinal tap" moment. My Teams was updated a day after yours, yet I am still on a lower version than you. 😞
Still no "reply" option
- Here is th problem
You can reply in IOS but not on desktop or android
Now it's 2021. I can't believe that an important app like teams doesn't have the reply feature😑
- depwnz It's 2021 now and this simple and most important feature (i.e. "reply to message") is still no delivered!
- Step by step video on How To Quickly Reply To a Specific Message on Teams Desktop
https://youtu.be/MxZ_gcnqCZgThe query is for reply to chat messages and not Posts in Channel. Your link is misleading
I was thankfully wrong!
Positive_energy Sorry that is not the answer.. you are referring specifically to opening a conversation in a "Channel".
As per Microsoft.. the desktop/macOS version is nerfed as far as "reply" goes. It is available in the iOS version of the app where you do a Long press to get reply; unfortunately as with every large enterprise.. good features get rejected because a bully in a suit doesn't understand when a smart engineers explains essential features of a product! Microsoft is certainly not an exception in this regard!
Positive_energy the question was how to reply to specific message in chat!
Not on Channel Posts!
