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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
    2022-07-12T21:26:30+00:00

    Hmmm...

    Maybe it's simpler because I'm on a Mac.

    1. Select the pieces of the chat you want to capture
    2. Copy
    3. Paste into wherever

    I can do that much as well, but I would like to download the entire chat it as if it were a meeting transcript. The resulting format of cutting and pasting from chat is just dreadful.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-10T19:27:41+00:00

    Hi Abigail,
    I had the same issue.
    I clicked the Pop out chat button and the chat dialogue box opened, and Ctrl + A didn't work.Image

    But I played around a bit and found a workaround.

    In the chat dialogue box, click the pencil icon, to the right of the names of the people in the chat.
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    The Group name dialogue box is displayed.
    Click the Cancel button.
    Press **Ctrl + A (**it now works!). All of the text in the chat string is selected!!!

    Wow, K.A.1234, that is very helpful, thanks! It worked for a short 4-person chat.

    Now, IF ONLY that could apply to the chat within a teams meeting! I have no pop-out option for meeting chats. Crying, pulling out hair.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-02T18:53:55+00:00

    Hi Abigail,
    I had the same issue.
    I clicked the Pop out chat button and the chat dialogue box opened, and Ctrl + A didn't work.

    But I played around a bit and found a workaround.

    In the chat dialogue box, click the pencil icon, to the right of the names of the people in the chat.

    The Group name dialogue box is displayed.
    Click the Cancel button.
    Press **Ctrl + A (**it now works!). All of the text in the chat string is selected!!!

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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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