How To Prevent Enter Key From Sending Chat Message

Anonymous
2022-11-11T15:44:24+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-04T10:20:52+00:00

    This is one of the only comments here that makes any sense. Workarounds do not solve this issue and most definitely avoid addressing the elephant in the room. This is a catastrophic feature deletion. We used to be able to disable "Enter as send". Some employee has actively made a decision to completely wreck the product by making Enter trigger the send button. It is way beyond bad, it's quite sinister. You don't do this by accident; you definitely don't do this if you have a level of rational intelligence. You only do this deliberately and vindictively. It's deeply concerning because this is not a joke; it's a serious tool being used as someone's idea of a prank, possibly quite high up to get this signed off. I think we need a deeper investigation into those responsible for this, and they need to be named and investigated.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-10T17:38:20+00:00

    I found the flaw in the simple script above. There is a side-effect that bullet and number lists no longer work like you would think.

    In those formatting modes, enter means new bullet, shift enter means a break in the current bullet.

    I haven't been able to find a programmatic way to know which of the two entry modes teams is using to fix this. I choose to workaround by typing the list, then adding the formatting afterwards, because for me that is a rare event, but sending an incomplete message wasn't.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-28T17:51:26+00:00

    Yes, that could work.

    I recently had used keyboard remapping via Power toy to get euro symbol on my Dell Multilingual qwerty keyboard so that AltGr+4 which what it is on British qwerty keyboard.

    While doing that I thought about this problem, but you need to limit it to a site or application. I think you can, but I didn't dare to try, in case it become a new side project again.

    Has anyone done it limiting the remap to a certain site or application?

    I didn't want to play the lab mouse.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-28T01:07:26+00:00

    Thank you for the useful info ! very helpful !

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-27T23:51:49+00:00

    You might try mapping enter to shift-enter, and mapping shift-enter to ctrl-enter.
    If you hit ctrl-enter, it sends from either mode, and shift-enter enters a newline in either mode. There might be a combo that gets you the behavior you want.

    Great idea, thank you.

    I'm embarrassed I never dug deep enough to notice enter is the only related key stroke that changes with mode. But if this mapping works in all the other teams windows, it just might save my sanity!

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