Export messages from Teams Chat?

Read through months of this thread to get to this work-around and find that it only works for very short chats. The chat I need to preserve is a couple months of roughly weekly chats. Tried to pop-out the chat then use ctrl-A but it only copies what's visible in the popout chat window. So THEN waited patiently while scrolling to the very beginning of the chat in May 2021 and did the mouse click hold and scroll routine to get back to today's chat, then ctrl-C to copy, ctrl-V to paste into a blank Word document. All this to find out that the entire chat didn't get selected but only the last couple hours! I couldn't even copy today's complete chat log!

I agree with the many other heated replies that this is a critical function that needs a MUCH HIGHER priority in the Teams Dev backlog. This plus other limitations makes it difficult to fully use Teams as the primary groups collaboration tool.

Blane

BlaneYama, I point exactly! Very frustrating. I wanted to copy the message threads to conversations to save, then delete on Teams. I thought it would be a quick way to do it, but it takes too much time and therefore, can't delete the messages yet. Also, it'd be nice to be able to select them all at one time and Delete, but the way I've seen to do it is to delete each message individually in the thread. Again, too time consuming. They have to do better.

This is unacceptable. It is critical in business settings to be able to see and review entire conversations and copy paste does NOT work for very large conversations.

I couldn't agree more.

1. There is no "Share to Outlook" option available. I can not say why not.
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".
3. This is a massive functional deficiency in the application which Microsoft needs to escalate getting a resolution for.
4. Take somebody off creating new cutesy plug-ins that nobody asked for. Work on providing an "Export Conversation" plug-in.

Ages later, this is still the most accurate message in all this thread. There are solutions for when your account is a Microsoft account and not an organization account (through this support page), but if your account belongs to "work or school", you are pretty much F...ed.

Thank you, Microsoft for making a product not future-proof (people leave organizations!) and f.. us all in the (...) . Instead of making things more complicated with shareponts, one notes, one drives, why don't you focus on fixing what is wrong with your current products and making something solid that makes all users happy? Each person on this thread has wasted hours because of this.