How To Prevent Enter Key From Sending Chat Message

It is a typical example of how Microsoft bullies its customers. There was no reason to remove the option, and the default send operation was a nuisance to begin with, but Microsoft wanted to pretend this is an instant massaging application.

how many people does it take to highlight this bug before MS will fix it?

Thanks to the comment by Adam Lemmon above, this autohotkey 4-liner fragment has been saving my sanity for a couple weeks now. My fingers are learning to remember ctrl-enter is send. Wrap it in proper ahk script and be happy.

Note that although the window class is TeamsWebView, I am using the desktop client. As written it won't do anything for Teams in a web browser.

;Teams Chat cursed enter key workaround using autohotkey v1.1 
;Teams behaviour:

;  ctrl-enter always sends 

;  shift-enter always line feeds 

;  enter is _cursed_ because it changes functions depending on text entry decoration
;

;Solution: map enter -> shift-enter 

;            leave shift-enter 

;            use ctrl-enter to send 
;            spend more time & bytes writing comments rather than script commands

;
;originally this script checked for 'Chat' to be in the title, but that test breaks 

;when I 'Open chat in new window'.  So far, it seems that shift+enter and enter have the same  

;function in every other Teams window I use regularly. 

#IfWinActive ahk_class TeamsWebView 

enter:: 

  send +{enter} 

  return

Right. Because having a feature that most other chat software does would make TOO MUCH SENSE. Better that we request it for a few years and see if someone gets around to it.

No, I don't see an A next to a pen anywhere. The symbol you are talking about is that of the upload icon that looks like this:

I don't know how you could mistake that for an A unless you are using some none standard interface that can't handle all the icons on some nonstandard version of an OS that can't handle icons. Or you need to update your system,

So the next time you want to answer a question you need to:

1-Avoid ANY using technical jargon.
2-Consider attaching a screenshot
3- specify the specification under which the screenshot was taken, i.e.: OS, Character especially when it is not standard.

You would have saved yourself a lot of frustrated responders.
So you may want to edit your answer now.

BTW, it is almost the perfect solution but still the expectation is something in the setting as in other webwares.