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I am often working in other windows but have a lot of teams messages that I need to address. This results in my sending meaningless messages accidentally when I hit ENTER thinking I am in a different window but I am really in teams. How do I by default prevent the ENTER button from sending a message?
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Casting my vote for this simple accommodation to end-user experience, training and competitor standards.
Please upvote the feedback item below to get this issue addressed!
Enable option to choose another key to use in order to send a message other than "the Enter key"
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/9ebae341-4ebe-ed11-83ff-000d3a1f8608
This has got to be one of the most annoying things about Teams (& there are a few). When typing on anything it is instinctive to press enter to start a new line - so why make it do something else? Its counterintuitive. FFS - sort it out.
I hear you, and while your information may have been useful for some I think it was your presentation that was off. It might have been better to say "A workaround that may help would be changing to format mode using...".
The fact is I personally am well aware of format mode, but my issue is NOT just using enter for newline, it's AVOIDING sending message prematurely.
If a person can remember to change it to format mode EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE, then they would equally remember to click Shift + Enter. So while the workaround does help when you remember it, it doesn't simply fix the underlying issue the first time you don't.
To that end, saying simply do X makes it seem like a complete fix when it's not, and we don't want the issue to be disregarded for those struggling with this issue.
That said, I appreciate the input as it's helpful to those that did not know about that mode.
Hello,
I am not a programmer, just a basic user who likes to use each tool to its maximum, within my own abilities and needs.
A good tool cannot accommodate everyone but needs to give the user the possibility to adapt the tool to its needs
The option is there to be used.
Regards,
Thierry