How To Export And Print A Teams Chat
It depends on the account. A personal Microsoft Teams account can export its whole chat history. We do not read that file yet, so send it and we add a reader for it. Screenshots work today on any account. A work or school account is held by the organization, so that one comes down to screenshots or asking your IT team.
Can I print a Microsoft Teams chat?
Yes, from screenshots today, on any account, for a short exchange. A personal account can also export its chats as a file. We do not read that file yet, so send it and we add a reader for it. Either way the book is set as pages, every message in order with each person's name beside what they wrote.
How do I export chats from a personal Teams account?
Go to teams.live.com/dataexport and sign in with your Microsoft account. Select Chat history, then Submit request. Microsoft says to check back on that page: when the file is ready, a Download button appears under Available Exports.
The download is a .tar file, and your chats are in the messages.json file inside it. Microsoft's steps are on its help page.
What about a work or school account?
Microsoft's export page above is for Teams for personal use. On a work or school account the messages are held by your organization, and getting a copy is a question for the IT team that runs it. Ask before you take anything out, because an employer may have rules about it.
For a short exchange, screenshots work on any account. After you choose your book, pick Screenshots, tick the box and upload them, up to 100, 20 at a time. They are read by Claude, Anthropic's model, only if you tick the box that says so, and we don't keep the screenshots.
What do I send to read receipts?
Open the .tar file, which a Mac does with a double click, and upload messages.json. We do not read the Teams file yet. Send it and we add a reader for it.
No matter what format your conversation is in, we guarantee we can get it printed, or your money back.
Does the other person find out?
Only when you give it to them. Only one of you needs to do this, and we never contact anyone else in the conversation.
Their messages are in the book beside yours. When you order, you confirm that you're in the conversation and that the others in it would be happy to be in a printed book. The privacy policy says what we keep and for how long.
What does it cost?
The Unabridged, every message set as a novel, is $49 as a paperback and $89 as a hardcover. The digital edition is $19. US shipping is free.
Related Guides
- How To Export And Print Slack MessagesWho can export, and what a member can do.
- How To Print An Email Thread As A BookSave the mail as a mailbox file and it is set as pages.
- How To Print A Groupchat As A BookOne person exports it. Everyone can have a copy.
- Print the groupchat as a bookThe book, for a group of friends.
read receipts is not affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft Teams is a trademark of its owner. What this page says about Teams was checked against Microsoft's own help pages on November 13, 2026, and apps change.
If You Want It As A Book
read receipts prints a Teams chat as a book, with every message in the order it was sent, from screenshots today or from the export once we have added its reader. You look through every page before anything prints. Or start with the free receipt.