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Teams messages search function does not show full conversation
When using the search function in Teams chat, is there a way to see more than just one specific message (I would like to see the response to the message)? For example, I searched for a question that ...
For a private/common chat conversation it appears to only work for the previous month. Any conversation older than that and it returns the single message. You can see 3 responses if you hit the down arrow on the search result which is a partial fix....at best. You can also spend the entire day scrolling back in the conversation to find it. In summation, Teams chat is pretty much useless making it a pretty terrible tool for productivity purposes.
- Couldn't agree with you more. A *VERY* frustrating part is scrolling back and back and back to find the message you were searching for, and when you finally get there you get another message in another channel. As soon as you click away you're back to today in the channel you were scrolling in and you get to start the scrolling exercise all over again. I really doubt Microsoft uses Team's or it would have been fixed by now.
phlyx Good point. I wonder if the people who test the software really use it in a real world environment or if they run some standard tests and then wait until they get feedback from disgruntled customers?
- In my company, they quite never do because the said software is not usable on your everyday life. This is not the case with Teams. So really, there is no technical issue. It’s just a matter of bucks, rushed dev, and emergency to steal the place took by competitors before they become too big to compete with.
- MS most likely uses Slack internally. Also, great point about taking 2 hours to scroll to "search" and then one miss click and you are back to current day.
