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

The removal of the Date-time and user name also affected me very much..

The workaround which was provided previously by other users here (Thanks) (holding mouse button and then pressing Ctrl+C) no longer worked starting version 25017.203.3370.1174.

I was a silent user watching this problem from far, I decided to sign-in to just to chirp in on one workaround I found by accident...

Procedure:

• On the chat..

• Click out of the typing field box,

• Press Ctrl+A

• Press Ctrl+C

This copies the entire chat until the last Hidden texts..

From there, I trim and format it with NP++ by finding "Today" and formatting from there..

I know it is still a "around-the head solution" and has too much garbage data..

It is a pity that Microsoft took a post from 1 person with 15 votes and removed a logical thing.. They should've weighed in the use-case scenario across the world (which I firmly believe requires the date-time and user fields for their daily work). This basically is telling about the type of people they have at work over there.

Update: Here's an Excel formula sheet that I prepared, this cleans up the data a bit and helps me at least,

Feel free to download and modify it as per your needs..

Perhaps someone can take this idea further into a VBA that does this all from start to end without manual intervention

How to use:

• Copy paste the text dump to a text editor of your choice, trim out all previous conversation to the top which is not necessary for you.

• Copy this ↥ shorter conversation
• Paste the text conversation in Cell A7(Under the "Input" header), this way the conversation texts occupy one cell per row..

• At Cell B2, type the full name of the person you are speaking to, (as appearing on the teams chat).

• At Cell C2, type your full name, (as appearing on the teams chat).

• Use slicer to exclude 0 (Zero) and [] (Double square brackets) from the table

• The texts from G7 (under "Output" header) to the bottom are you conversations in a bit readable format..

General note:

I use 24Hour clock, so there is a possibility that this might not work for the people preferring 12H format.

again, this is just a Excel spreadsheet with formulas, feel free to download and change it as per your needs..

Many users at our organisation are having the same issue with Ctrl C and Ctrl V not copying the Teams message with the sender, date and time details. The holding of the mouse button whilst selecting Ctrl C and then Pasting with Ctrl V does capture this information, but it is in one long text string that requires editing to make it a readable format.

Please can you look to getting this fixed asap as this is an important feature that is obviously required

100% agree

I completely agree! This was a very useful and heavily used feature, so I hope it is restored to its former glory soon! :)

Copy that, Kevin. :) Actually, copy/paste that. Except not like before. Hopefully that will change soon. Egregious UX oversight.