I am not able to copy and paste Teams message with Time and sender name

Anonymous
2024-08-15T14:41:51+00:00

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

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T17:18:20+00:00

    Tell me you're a Developer that doesn't use your own product without telling me you're a Developer that doesn't use your own product.

    You remove, not modify options for, but COMPLETELY remove basic/common functionality for power daily users (or even standard users in some cases). You did it "to save time". Let's see...how much more time does it take to completely retype a name (e.g., Obilisetty VijayKumar, sorry 😬), GET IT CORRECT and type a date/timestamp with special characters vs. how long it takes to delete a line?

    Additionally, trying to use the workaround on the initial sender is flawed and difficult because the reactions pops up directly over this info as soon as you hover over it and doesn't go away, so I'm not sure if I have all of it until I paste it and I don't. I swear this must be new because I've been using the workaround to copy it and I would have noticed this before.

    As @Kevin Wudtke pointed out, NOT including the sender and timestamp vs. 313 votes to bring back the functionality is (updated) 12 vs. 314, AND MOST OF THE COMMENTS ON THE NO VOTE ARE TO BRING IT BACK. This was simply bad, ignorant design, which was probably done because it was low hanging fruit that presented the opportunity to pretend like they're listening to feedback.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-24T06:34:44+00:00

    It's 2025 now and we're still dealing with this issue!? I'm going to bring up to senior management that this bug, and the lack of response from Microsoft, should be all we need to start looking at alternatives to Teams.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-27T13:36:25+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-28T09:21:18+00:00

    The format when holding the mouse button still after selecting text and then Ctrl C and Crtl V is awful and you have to go back and edit it so that it is in a readable format. This is not a workaround as it creates more work and wastes time.

    Just bring back the way it was before and save us all time and effort.

    only way around this at the minute to preserve the formatting is to use the Snip & Sketch tool and post as images - still not really acceptable

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-28T09:23:15+00:00

    This issue appears to have been reported to Microsoft by numerous people and directly via service requests. Your suggestions do not work and are not a solution or good workaround!

    The format when holding the mouse button still after selecting text and then Ctrl C and Crtl V is awful and you have to go back and edit it so that it is in a readable format. This is not a workaround as it creates more work and wastes time.

    Just bring back the way it was before and save us all time and effort.

    only way around this at the minute to preserve the formatting is to use the Snip & Sketch tool and post as images - still not really acceptable

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