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ft and right arrow keys have no effect in TEAMS BUT left-arrow + CTRL moves left one word, and right-arrow + CTRL moves right one word. So it is clear the arrow keys on the keyboard are functioning and sending signals to the computer. I also tried my laptop built in keyboard & the number pad. All have the same effect. What could be making the arrows by themselves not work? (Up and Down arrows work normally.)
1. Is it a laptop or desktop computer?
Laptop
2. What is the make and model of the keyboard?
HP laptop keyboard & logitech external
3. Was it working fine earlier?
Yes at most an hour before
4. Were there any recent changes made on the computer prior to the issue?
No. Maybe I inadvertently hit some hot key?
Conversations involving multiple participants, allowing collaboration and information sharing in Teams
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As it is good to know how to kill an app. Would it be better not to have problem with arrow keys in first place?
Issue occurred few times on my teams and it is quite disturbing to workflow.
I'm still experiencing the same issue where the left and right arrow keys stop working in a Teams chat on 9/26/2021. Strange that they work in all other applications, and the Ctrl + right or left arrow still works where they skip a word rather than just a character. The only work-a-round is to restart Teams, by right-clicking on the icon in the taskbar and selecting Quit. I hope that someone from Microsoft support is monitoring this thread and they share a fix that resolves the bug.
Happy 1 year anniversary to this issue! Still unresolved? Yep!
Also having this issue on Mac, but I found a possible cause and solution without having to exit / restart. My suspicion is Teams is getting confused about what is selected and trying to navigate the UI, rather than the text.
Cause:
This seemed to start happening immediately after I finished editing my last message having pressed the "up" cursor to edit it. On completion, I wasn't able to move left and right.
Fix:
From having the text entry box select, I hit tab to switch to selecting from the format panel. I then used the left and right cursors to change my selection a couple of times. Finally, I hit "Shift+Tab" to return to the text entry box. I was immediately able to use left and right to move through text again.
Solution (until MS fixes the problem):
Ensure you are typing in the text entry box. Press tab. Press right. Press left. Press Shift+Tab.
Edit: I had an issue earlier today where everything except CMD+A (ctrl+a) was working for me in Teams, which was fixed by tabbing and shift-tabbing a few times until getting back to the text box, which also fixed it. I don't know why this is working but it seems Teams gets confused as to where certain commands are taking place, and you can force it to bring it back to the text box by cycling through where I assume it's been locked to in the UI.
Any plans to fix this or will you keep working on features nobody wants instead of fixing the core features?