How do you copy Teams message without time and sender information?

This is ridiculous that MS can not seem to find it worth their time to fix this age old BS. It's bassackward that this app copies in this manner in the first place let alone taking years to fix it... Another example of Microsoft's half baked software being released to the public as a solution...

That's very cool. I also use AutoHotkey. My "Tilt-Meter" reached its peak last week and wrote a different Script that accomplishes something similar. I hadn't thought of removing the last Character from the Clipboard. I thought this was a really interesting take. My version checks to see whether you're using Teams (similar to the "#IfWinActive, ahk_exe Teams.exe") and checks to see if the first character in the Clipboard is "[".

$^c:: {Send, ^cWinGet, PName, ProcessName, A

; Copy from Microsoft Teams 🡲 Remove HeaderIf (PName == "Teams.exe"){; Retrieve the First Character in the ClipboardStringLeft, FirstChar, Clipboard, 1

; If the First Character is [, Remove the HeaderIf (FirstChar == "["){             ; Find the 2nd Carriage Return in the Clipboard and Store it's position in SecondRetCar

StringGetPos, SecondRetCar, Clipboard, `n, L2 ; Retrieve the Full Length of Characters in the ClipboardTeamsMsgLen := StrLen(Clipboard)

            ; Delete the First Two Lines in the  Clipboard, plus one character (-1), and store the Result in TeamsMsg StringRight, TeamsMsg, Clipboard, TeamsMsgLen - SecondRetCar - 1

; Put the Result back into the ClipboardClipboard = %TeamsMsg%

Return}}}

Limitations with this Script are:

• When not copying the full content of a Teams message, if the first Character ends up being "[", the first two lines will be deleted, regardless. Example: If I Copy Text "Mid-Teams-Message", and the first Character Selected is "[". I consider this instance to be a rare occurrence, and I'm ok living with it for the time being.
• When Pasting the Contents of the Clipboard (with the Removed Header), you lose all Text Formatting (Bold, Italic, "Rich Text Parameters", etc.). I haven't found a way, as of yet, to keep Text Formatting in the Clipboard when altering its Contents. In my experience (so far at least), Text Formatting in Teams is not a common occurrence. I'm willing to fumble with the messages that do have Rich Text Formatting, for the few times I might encounter them.
• When Copying Multiple Messages, this Script also only Deletes the first Header. All other subsequent Headers are kept in the Clipboard. I'm not sure I want to spend time adding this Functionality to the Script. At this point, when Copy-Pasting a "Back-and-Forth" conversation, I think there is value in seeing, and knowing who said what... and come to think of it, I might just add a Functionality to keep the first Header when there are multiple Messages Copied... One Functionality to keep them all in, and another to remove them all perhaps? 🤔... In retrospect, my primary pain-point relates to one Teams Message (not multiple). Not being able to quickly select one full Message (which often times is only one full paragraph) and Pasting the information without the unnecessary doodoo that comes with it (the Date, Time and Author). The only useful information in this instance (when Copying only one message), is the Author, which is practically always conveyed before Copy-Pasting the information in the first place.

Made the follow AHK Script.

Note that this only works for a single message, so you can triple clip and copy it without headers. It does not solve the problem when highlighting multiple message, and in fact makes it worse in that use case, but it's something.

#IfWinActive, ahk_exe Teams.exe

Ctrl & C::

{

Send {Lshift Down}{Left}{Lshift Up} 

Send ^c 

return 

}

#IfWinActive

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you are genius :)

No, and Microsoft can't care less. I'm being so disappointed with Microsoft lately and whoever is the person there responsible for User Experience. This guy should really be fired. If Apple were not so selfish/crappy I would had switched to Apple already...

This guy Benedik Vojtěch looks like he left Microsoft as this comment he placed here was the only one he ever made.

Maybe I'll start using Chromebooks now on lol

Hi Diogo,

Should you still have some issues, please follow below:

To be able to copy Teams message without timestamp and sender information, all you have to do is to NOT use double click of mouse to select the text you want to copy, neither Ctrl+A.

Just use mouse cursor to select a text you wish to copy, once highlighted, press Ctrl+C and paste with standard Ctrl+V.

Microsoft Teams Version 1.6.00.12455 (64-bit).

:-)

Should you be interested in working at Microsoft and shaping its user experience depertment, please have a look at opportunities here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/home.html I am sure that applying to any job offer in the link above, will increase chances to improve Microsoft more than complaining in this forum to a guy who doesn't work at Microsoft, neither has or had any professional link to that company.

I believe that Microsoft users would appreciate if you switch to Apple and join their herd, leaving this forum non-toxic.

Wish you a happy day and a format free copy-paste function.

Vojtěch Benedik