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my-kl
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May 12, 2021
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Why does Teams always strip indentation when pasting text?

It's fairly common to want to post code in teams (without using the special formatting for code snippets). The markdown like syntax for code works pretty well when typing code and it preserves ind...
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    my-kl
    May 14, 2021

    my-kl 

    So I got to the heart of the matter. I used the https://evercoder.github.io/clipboard-inspector/ to inspect the contents of clipboard when copying the same text from two different apps. Both have two entries. One of the entries is text/html and one is text/plain. The text/plain as you might guess is identical. The html is quite different. I then copied the html and rendered.

    This is what I see from TextEdit

     

    This is what I see from Visual Studio Code

     

    So this would appear to be an issue with my environment in Visual Studio Code (or even a defect in Code, I"m not sure)

     

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my-kl
Brass Contributor
May 13, 2022
I just did a search for how to report an issue. One way is to use the Help | Give Feedback option within Teams itself, which I just did. We'll see if that helps.
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Giacomo_Mc_Evoy
Copper Contributor
May 13, 2022

my-kl 

Hello! Thanks for answering. I also just noticed that this is a community forum, not exactly a bug reporting tool. I have also used Help -> Give Feedback, let's see if that helps somehow.

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    agallowayCTA
    Copper Contributor
    May 27, 2022
    What OS are you on? There doesn't appear to be a Help -> Give Feedback menu option on my MacOS version of the application.
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      Jun 08, 2022

      agallowayCTA I'm using MacOS too and found it under the Help icon on the bottom left corner.

       

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