Export messages from Teams Chat?

Hello SJBOEGE,

Based on my experience, the hotkey Ctrl + A is not a feasible way to copy the entire conversation. We need to hold on the left key of the mouse then move up the mouse to select the conversations' content, and then press Ctrl + C and Ctrl + v to copy/paste them.

Maybe capture some screenshots of the conversation is a better way for backup.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Please do take care. 

Regards,

Rudy

If the content is over a few screens in length, this method does not work.

Clicking and dragging with the mouse will work for a screen's worth of content or so, then the screen refreshes and what is highlighted gets lost/unhighlighted/forgotten/left to perish in the annals of time and space.

Here is the workaround that works best for me:

1. Start with blank doc in one window; Teams chat in another.
2. Note that each message of a chat conversation appears in its own selectable CHAT BOX. Therefore, in the Teams chat window, place the cursor in the first chat box you want to export. Do not select anything. Just click anywhere inside that box.
3. Now, holding down the SHIFT key, use the DOWN arrow to jump to the next chat box. The first box should become fully selected(!).
4. Continue hitting the DOWN arrow until it becomes unresponsive. Several chat boxes will have been selected and it has reached its limit.
5. COPY then PASTE to the document.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 until entire chat is copied.

(This works on the client and web versions of MS Teams on a PC.)

Hey there,

could you maybe send a screenrecording / screenshot of how you can select all the conversation in order to right click it and so on?

Thanks so much in advance!

meomi