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

please fix this. it is not worth all the time people go and delete the header. prioritize productivity please

Also, this is on me, but I copy pasted something from teams into a key-vault and it broke since it added the header. I didn't notice because the key-vault automatically censors the text

So stupid that it copies name and timestamp,

Hey! I want the day/time and who sent that text.

But what I find is odd is that sometimes it also pastes a summary of each sent item, which as near as I can tell is what pops out from the notification area.

I can sometimes get it to paste correctly if I start the copy selection point not at the end or beginning of the text, and vary between se;etog from above to below or below to above (upper to lower or lower to upper).

Other than that, ctrl+c or right click + copy, and ctrl+v pastes formatted and shift+ctrl+v pastes plain text.

To paste an image, right click in Teams on the image a pick "copy image" then paste it where you want.

This is using Teams via O365, app version 1.6.00.11166, or via the web version.

If pasting into a Word document or Outlook email, maybe use a macro to remove the time/person info.

I had ChatGPT write some macro code for me (for something else) and it at least gets you started, or if pasting into Word, record a macro to do it.

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When I paste and it pastes the non-summarized version, and it has the timestamp + name of who sent it, the pattern I see is: “beginning of line”, “left square bracket”, “hour of day”, colon, “minute of hour”, space, “AM or PM indicator”, “right square bracket”, space, “global address book display name”, “new line” or “carriage return”, followed by a blank line, then the content of what they typed.

You might try asking ChatGPT to create some code to remove that pattern (except the content part). Modify accordingly for your time display (like if you're using 24-hour time).

Who was the big brain that thought this was a feature? It is like Microsoft has no idea how their customers actually use their product. In what situation is automatically time stamping and quoting on Microsoft teams actually useful? In the rare circumstance where we actually need the time stamp and name there is always the search feature. Meanwhile I have never had a task where I actually needed, let alone wanted the quote and timestamp 'feature'.

almost a year has passed, no progress was made...

Hi Benedik Vojtěch, I wish you had read the thread, which you didn't.

We know what you said is the way it works, but it's not a good way of working.

What we want is for you to open a ticket internally in Microsoft to change this behavior in Teams to stop copying the header when we double click on the whole message. NO ONE want the header together, ONLY the person in Microsoft that thought this was a good thing that wants this feature, the rest of the planet don't!!

Can you please open this ticket internally and don't give us crappy answers?

Thx!