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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
Conversations involving multiple participants, allowing collaboration and information sharing in Teams
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Surprised you got this to work. Co-Pilot is of no help for me.
I have been able to copy and paste the name/date/time stamp when copying it on it's own separately and inserting it into my word document between the comments .
although not really suitable for a long chat to do all that copying and pasting :(
Exactly. If I can highlight to copy and paste one we should have the option to copy and paste all of it. Not reasonable when there are a couple hundred messages in chat!
If it is a long conversation it would output the whole of it.
It's like there's a buffer and it only will send the time/date for a portion of the conversation. You will have to and a start time and end time to for multiple segments of the chat to get the whole thing.
But at this point, it's that or taking screenshots of it.
To all those interested in MS giving us the option for this/fixing this, please upvote this request on the Microsoft Feedback Portal: Copying messages no longer includes the who/when context in Teams
Actual state: 469 votes