Microsoft Teams for desktop now testing support for quoted replies
Quoted replies make it easier to respond to a specific message within Microsoft Teams.
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What you need to know
Microsoft Teams is bringing support for quoted replies to the desktop. The feature allows people to reply to specific messages within a chat. It’s a common feature in other chat apps, such as WhatsApp, but hasn’t been available on the desktop version of Teams up to this point.
Quoted replies arenow in public previewfor the desktop version of Microsoft Teams. This brings the desktop version more in line with its mobile counterparts, which have supported quoted replies for a while.
Teams supports quoted replies in chats, but people cannot use them in channels at this time. You can reply to messages in channels in a thread, though that isn’t an exact replication of quoting a specific message.
Quoted replies allow people to clarify which message they’re responding to. In a chat that could include several topics of conversation, quoting a specific message can call back to a particular point.
To quote a specific message on Teams:
When someone receives a quoted reply, they can click on the quoted portion to jump to the original message.
To try out this feature, IT admins need to set up a policy to show preview features. Microsoft notes that the same feature is on the way to Teams on the web.
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Microsoft Teams is a popular app for meetings, group calls, and chatting. Now, support for quoted replies is in preview for the desktop version of Teams.
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