Export messages from Teams Chat?

Agree 100% withUncaAlby comments above! The ability to export Team's individual and group chats is a MUST!!!

2. Copying entire conversations is difficult, as it will only allow copying roughly a page at a time. When you attempt to include more than a page, it will either drop off the first part or the second part. It is unclear what the application considers to be a "page".

I too had that problem. Solution is to do the conversation "Pop Out" , then Ctrl-A to select All, then copy and paste to Word.

Works for me! ;)

Hi Rudy,

I just want to register my extreme dissatisfaction with Microsoft Teams and the fact that the user is not permitted to do the simple and frequently needed step of saving a chat.  How could this have been overlooked? Or was it looked at and Microsoft decided against including the feature?  Either way it is a major mistake and renders Teams a poor choice--for me at least--as my primary corporate communication tool.  I won't bother detailing the scenarios that arise in my job which necessitate saving the content of Teams chats, since any product designer or developer could easily think of many.  Oh but, but, but you say, you might be able to go to the Export page, or load an extension that will let you take a long screenshot (!), or export to Outlook--none of those options is possible for me for one reason or another, and my main point is that workarounds just to save some content should not be required.  Really, going to some Microsoft page just to save/export content in the app I'm using?  Who decided this was a good idea?  

Or how about the similarly frustrating and inexplicable limitation that the user can only scroll through small portions of a Teams chat at a time, with the content constantly needing to load.  We are not talking about a protein-folding or nuclear explosion simulation here, Microsoft! I understand the concept of not loading all content into memory at once, but are you really telling me you can't load and keep in memory more than a couple of hundred KB of text at a time?  Other applications that work with large files have solved this problem much better to the point where there is no loading delay while scrolling, the user can navigate precisely up or down in the content, and the user can select all the content in a file with a click or a keystroke.  But not with Teams.  This performance is pathetic.  It makes it horribly difficult and annoying to scroll through conversations and find your place and it makes copying content a nightmare.  

I really am astonished at how poorly Microsoft Teams performs in these simple tasks which were never problems before:  that's right, instead of solving existing problems, Teams is creating new ones.  How many years of development were spent on this application without mastering very basic "quality of life" type issues?  Please do not respond to me with any weak workarounds.  Just tell the project manager to remove these tedious and annoying limitations in a future version.

Sincerely,

A frustrated user

I dont really need to export all, but I have this search issue.. If the search hit is old (>1year?) I only get one centence of what was said, and not the lines above and below that I need to get back into that old conversation.. As an attempt to pick up that old conversation, I chose to google for exporting the messages.