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When I paste a small icon in Chat, why does a big gray box appear behind it?

Anonymous
2025-01-10T17:45:49+00:00

When I paste a small icon in Chat, why does Teams put a huge gray box around it? My team is trying to add eye-catching icons with commentary to the chat during client meetings. The huge gray box ruins the effect.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-10T21:04:51+00:00

    Hi Gallego,

    The gray box around pasted icons in Teams chat is likely due to the default formatting applied by the application. Teams might be automatically creating a container or wrapper around the image to ensure proper display and prevent unexpected behavior. Unfortunately, there might not be a direct setting to remove this gray box within the current Teams interface.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-21T10:42:49+00:00

    If you enlarge the picture horizontally by a bit (so that it takes approximately the space of 3 letters) by putting white-space in it, then the grey box is gone.

    I noticed that when I pasted HTML-text with mathematical formulas set as PNG-bitmaps. The PNG-bitmaps are generated from LaTeX-fragments in an orgmode-Text. There I can just add \quad for the white-space at the left and the right side. So, instead of $\Psi$ I write $\quad\Psi\quad$. Long formulae like $\sqrt{x^2+y^2}$ even do not need any additional whitespace at all.

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