Export chat from a Teams meeting

Anonymous
2020-07-02T19:42:24+00:00

Please can  you tell me how to export a chat that went on during a 4 hour teams meeting? It is too long to copy and paste screen by screen and I need to be able to copy it into a word document. Control A doesn't work and neither does holding the mouse down and trying to copy it all.

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-03-10T18:00:59+00:00

    only semi-workable way i've found is to screen clip (shift + win + S), paste image into onenote, then right click on image and 'make image text searchable'.

    yawn.

    bring back Lync. fully installed, it was the business.

    all this stuff and more worked properly.

    and the interface was much more useable.

    and the conversations were shown in outlook.

    teams really seems to be pretty noddy from a business point of view.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-18T17:29:46+00:00

    Doesn't copy pictures...

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-05T19:57:05+00:00

    Thank you, I was able to do this in the Teams app (v 1.5.00.11157 for Mac).

    It results in much useless information ("Profile picture of...") for every message. It is relatively easy to clean up using an advanced editor (SublimeText), but not so much in notepad.

    It really would've been nice for MS to output a CSV or something that would make extracting the content much easier, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-25T22:45:39+00:00

    Honestly I can't believe Microsoft has missed this feature. Obviously people will want to record their meetings and the results of them. In our meetings, people use the chat to share links, files, ask questions and we need to capture all of these components. When the meeting is an "info session" we have people not contained within a "channel" and therefore the features associated with channel meetings are not helpful. Being able to copy / paste (or better yet, export the chat content) should have been identified early on by Microsoft.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-06-13T15:37:50+00:00

    Hi there,

    The Ctrl+A and copy and paste method doesn't work. It doesn't copy from the beginning of the chat to the end. It copies from a certain point which I can't quite figure out how MS Teams decides. I've scrolled all the way to the beginning of the chat (July 2020) and using my mouse, highlighted all the text until the end of the chat (December 2021) and I still only get portions.

    Do you know why and how I can get around that? My only solution is to copy and paste portions at a time to ensure I have it all.

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