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
    2024-01-17T09:34:09+00:00

    I'm actually pushing for Slack now here at least in my team for starter.

    In extend of what a great man said once,
    "
    you Microsoft"
    Also working more and more on Debian each day

    ✌

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-17T09:23:10+00:00

    This tilts me so much i'm not joining any company using teams anymore :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-17T18:53:46+00:00

    Yeah, what was done? Still not working here. Work around still works though - CTRL+A to select the whole message and then click Shift+Left arrow and then CTRL+C

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-18T13:24:20+00:00

    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.

    This is incorrect, you have to carefully and deliberately drag from the start of the text. If you ever start from the end of the text when highlighting you will highlight an invisible timestamp. Additionally if you ever highlight two chat messages the timestamps will appear no matter what direction you start highlighting from. Why the timestamps can be highlighted invisibly to be copied makes no sense since you can highlight them to copy the same thing anyway. Why doesn't Microsoft just remove the invisible timestamps and leave just the visible ones?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T17:43:48+00:00

    2 other really stupid changes, ranked at the top 3 worst things that Microsoft have ever done:

    1. Moving the Outlook search bar to the top, having that horrible dropdown coming over the ribbons, forcing you to do extra clicks in case you want to search on more specific fields. On my computer that dropdown takes about 5 seconds to only appear and the search is really slow!
    2. They disappeared with the "Date Search" field into the search ribbon. That was SO USEFUL and it's just gone. I can still manually search by date using the keyword "received:" but man!! How stupid was that? What was wrong with that field? Why removing it?

    Anyway, let's not diverge the conversation here, I need Benedik to confirm he opened a request for improvement or even a defect request to "Microsoft Teams" team to fix and/or change that default functionality.

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