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

I hate the lack of who and time stamp. I rely on it.

With that data missing I have no context of who said what.

I need an option to turn it back on.

Triple click helps but the output layout sucks and makes it really hard to follow, and the "summary" with duplicate "who said it" is useless!

I just tested now and the header is still coming up when you "triple click" on the paragraph.

I really don't like when things are enforced. I want the header there when I want it and I hate it there when I don't want it. Teams even created a feature to forward messages to others which comes nicely showing who sent it.

MS should create a simple flag "Copy header when copying entire content of a message" and if I mostly need it, I mark it, and if I mostly don't need it, I uncheck it. It would make our day by day less annoying to have to avoid this "enforced" behavior that a single person in MS decided "it's mostly needed" based his very narrow / ignorant point of view and his sole decision affects millions of people on daily basis since several years already.

As an efficient work-around, once you triple click on the message, hold Shift and hit keyboard left once, it will unselect the hidden content at the end of the visible text that represents the header.

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

For anyone interested, I've found a workaround for this issue using an external tool. I utilize PastePal, a clipboard manager, which can be found at PastePal. PastePal allows users to write "Transformers" scripts that process and clean the copied data. Here's the Transformer I wrote:

function transform(clip) {

    // Define the pattern to check in the first line

    const pattern = /^\[\d+\/\d+\s\d+:\d+\s(AM|PM)\]\s.+$/;

    // Split the text into lines

    const lines = clip.text.split(/\r?\n/);

    // Check if the first line matches the pattern

    if (pattern.test(lines[0])) {

        // If the pattern matches, return the second line and all subsequent lines, joined into a single string

        return lines.slice(1).join('\n');

    } else {

        // If the first line does not match the pattern, return the original text or handle as needed

        return clip.text; // Or any other handling as required

    }

}

I use this to clean up messages copied from Teams.

Hope it can be helpful to someone else too.

Exactly

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).