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

Anonymous
2022-06-14T11:30:21+00:00

I want to triple-click a message, copy it to the clipboard, then paste it in whichever application, and I don't want to see the header (time and sender information).

Yes, it is possible to carefully select parts of a message, and make sure you don't snag the beginning or end of the message so you don't "grab" the header. This is not what I'm looking for. I want a one-click-solution.

I found this post dating from 2013, about Skype/Lync. I'm looking for the same thing in Teams.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-enables-users-to-copy-instant-messages-without-author-name-and-time-stamp-in-skype-for-business-lync-2013-42c4ac43-9d14-d2be-ef38-107f15033bf7

Thank you

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-13T19:05:09+00:00

    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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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-06T17:09:36+00:00

    Exactly

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-06T17:03:01+00:00

    ... and Microsoft believes that this is "better" and "easier" than just take that dam **** header out of the text by default. OMG! If people want to header, let people copy the header all together! Don't IMPOSE it like there is no other option! Is it that hard to understand? At maximum create a checkbox in Options that allow users to chose if they want or not the header to come together.

    PReinie01, for keyboard lovers, your solution will be great! Yet, the triple click would always be the best user experience and MS just messed it up.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-09-06T16:52:30+00:00

    How to mark your reply as an answer or solution

    you are genius :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-18T21:39:24+00:00

    I found that if you double-click the first word of the paragraph, then hold down Shift and use "End" key (hopefully you have one instead of Fn+End), then down until you get to the last word, then arrow back (left) one character, release shift key, then copy, it doesn't copy the time-stamp.

    Too bad you still have to repeat that for every paragraph.

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