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In Microsoft Teams chat, if I type a second underscore character in a chat line, Teams tries to turn the part of the line between the two underscore characters to italic and removes the underscores. I find this very annoying, because I do often want to type underscore characters. In the rare case when I do want to type italic, I can press control-I to do just that. Is there some way to disable this behavior?

The only workaround that I know is to copy-paste the text from elsewhere, but that's not a particularly nice way to use a real-time chat program.

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  • I do not have teams to test it, nbut in most microsoft programs I workl around it by adding a space and then deleting that space. E.g dash dash space enter. Curtsor to space, delete, leaving to dashes instead of a reformat to a long line. Or in this case underscore space I space underscore, cursor left, del, cursur left, backspace.
    – Hennes
    Apr 16, 2021 at 11:57
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  • This isn't a solution, but that behavior is because the text field is using markdown. In markdown, you put anything you want italics between underscores, anything you bold between double asterisks and anything you want to be code between backticks. Apr 16, 2021 at 12:46
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    @bobsfriend Markdown is somewhat less agressive in interpretting codes as formatting than the teams chat input. It only looks for start of italic at the start of a word and end of italic at the end of a word. Teams chat will make the middle of basic_string_view italic.
    – b_jonas
    Apr 16, 2021 at 19:30

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Hit Ctrl + Z after typing the second underscore character, and it should return to what you originally typed.

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