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I am not able to copy and paste Teams message with Time and sender name. I was able to do it a week ago. I want to copy text with time and sender name. same issue on both Desktop and web version
Conversations involving multiple participants, allowing collaboration and information sharing in Teams
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Comparing to the old Teams, this is a bug for new. Pls fix it.
Across the Windows platform, there is nowhere else requesting the users to hold the mouse for selection and then CTRL+C to copy whatever needed. The behavior here is very strange.
The old teams still has the working copy and paste with timestamps. At least for me it says it only has 28 days of life left so this is only a short term solution.
100% agree
Except that only the people who did NOT want those things were submitting that feedback. Why would those of us that were happy with how it worked submit feedback. But instead of making it an option or giving those people a work around, Microsoft completely changed how it worked so that the rest of us are SOL. The Forward feature works fine for a single message but not multiple. The Export API is overkill as it will give you the entire chat history. The other workaround of keeping the mouse button down after selecting while pressing CTRL+C kind of works but adds a lot of extra **** that must be cleaned up. We know they aren't going to put it back the way it was, but they still need to FIX it by making it an option in settings or an additional right-click option. We must now be the ones to leave feedback.
I didn't read through all the comments, so this may have been mentioned already. This isn't broken, this is decision put in place by the Teams group.
https://admin.microsoft.com/#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC878422
Summary
Teams has removed timestamps and author names from copied messages to reduce clutter. Users who need detailed message transfer should use the Forward feature or Teams Export API. This change is already in effect, and organizations may need to update training materials accordingly.
Many users have voiced frustrations over copying messages in Teams, particularly the inclusion of metadata like names and timestamps. Customer feedback has been clear, signaling that this feature was adding more noise than value to user workflow.