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this work around seems to have stopped working now :(
Microsoft Teams Copying Name, Timestamp, and Message
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Anonymous
I used to be able to copy a series of teams messages and it would include the Username, timestamp and the message, but now it only includes the message. I did not change anything about the way I'm copying. I need to be able to copy and paste this data for my work. I have already deleted the MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe file to clear cache, and I've reset and repaired the app. I have had no luck in getting this ability back. We should have the choice of including this data in clipboard or not.
Example of what it used to look like:
[Yesterday 8:15 AM] James Smith
Message
[Yesterday 8:30 AM] John White
Message
[Yesterday 9:30 AM] Jackson Taylor
Message
Example of what it looks like now:
Message
Message
Message
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Anonymous
2025-03-10T16:25:52+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-03-10T15:29:55+00:00 Not that I have found.
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Anonymous
2025-03-10T07:48:05+00:00 Any update from MS available?
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Anonymous
2025-03-06T15:51:18+00:00 From my experience, it appears the copy function Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V no longer will include the date/time of a chat post no matter what you do.
The only way I have been able to recover this is by using Copilot within the app and ask it to do something like:
**Can you show me the complete chat from Monday with time stamps, showing the time stamp first?**This works but if it is a long chat it will only will show a certain amount of the conversation. :(
PLEASE FIX THIS SO THOSE OF US THAT NEED TO DOCUMENT CHATS WITH DATE & TIMES CAN DO SO.
It is extremely frustrating to have to use all these workarounds to do what was so easy to do until Microsoft decided to change it. -
Anonymous
2025-03-03T18:21:41+00:00 Agree, this trick with the holding down the mouse while you do ctrl-c ctrl-v no longer works. MS really needs to revert back to the way it worked a few years back before this trick was needed. What a mess.