Printing document from within Teams is very slow.

Matthew O'Malley 6 Reputation points
2021-08-12T11:02:33.88+00:00

When printing a document from inside of Teams, it takes minutes to build the PDF before printing. If you open the same file and print from Word Online, there is no delay. It is instant.

Why is this and also is there anything that can be done at either user or admin level to speed this process up.

I have looked all over and cannot see anybody else talking about this.

I have tried this in different tenants with different set-ups, on different devices and the behaviour is always the same.

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  1. Xzsssss 8,881 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-08-13T05:41:37.96+00:00

    Hi @Matthew O'Malley ,

    Sorry I have searched the Official Microsoft Documents, but I didn’t find anything related to speeding up the printing or converting process. And we could not find such options in Teams Admin Center or Teams Clients.

    Personally I think it should be a designed behavior of the Print feature in Teams. The functions of Word and other Microsoft Business software like Excel and PowerPoint are not fully integrated in Teams, and for the integrated parts, they are some completed feature sets, we are not able to change the settings in it. Open a Word file in Teams client and you will see there is no Option or Setting button like the normal client do.

    For now, as you know, the best way to avoid waiting a long time for Teams to convert documents to pdf is to open them with word online or desktop client for printing.

    Best regards,
    Lou


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