Microsoft Teams Copying Name, Timestamp, and Message

I had this issue investigated last week. Here is the response from Microsoft:

It was a feature requested on the user feedback page: Copying the selected text should only copy selected text, not sender · Community (microsoft.com)

Some customers are advocating for this to be an optional feature.

Osahon Ozabor

I would love, love, love if it we could choose between the two options.

How to implement?

Here's my idea. I think it would please the most people.

Step one: add a Select Message(s) item.

• PC and web: Add it to the Message Quick Menu or the Context Menu
• Mobile: Add it to a Long-Press Menu

Step two: activating Select Message(s) would do the following.

• Activate message selection mode
• Pop the option Select All
• Pop the option to Copy Message(s) With Date, Time, Author
• Pop the option to Copy Message(s) Without Date, Time, Author

Notes:

• The user can activate Select All to--you guessed it--select all messages in the conversation.
• The user can pick and choose messages to copy by clicking or tapping each message to select it, using checkboxes, or another standard method.
• The app would indicate what messages are selected using an outline around each message, filled checkboxes, or another appropriate method.

This implementation would/should be compatible and consistent with the standards and norms for each Teams experience: PC, web, keyboard, mouse, touch, and assistive technology. In addition, people could just "normally" highlight/select the message text to copy that portion of the text or the entire message body.

Alternatively, this could be a toggle in Settings in each experience, though I like that idea less.

Thank you for working on this!

Does anyone know if there is a thread we can upvote to make this an optional feature?

Re-enabling the feature to include Names and TimeStamps would be very much appreciated.

As previously illustrated....

[Yesterday 8:15 AM] James Smith

Message

[Yesterday 8:30 AM] John White

Message

[Yesterday 9:30 AM] Jackson Taylor

Message

VS

Message

Message

Message

I have been frustrated with this exact thing for the last few weeks.
I often copy teams messages with names and timestamps when updating tickets when the conversations have pertinent info in them.

It's frustrated me to only get the messages and have to indicate who said what at what time as this is now taking so much extra time that's unnecessary.

Unfortunately, our IT department just upgraded our workstations to Win11, so I wasn't sure if it was a Teams update that happened or the difference between win10 and win11, since there were other features and apps that are different within win11.

I really hope Microsoft DOES implement this as an option though, as it IS beneficial for those of us that need or want timestamps along with who said what in a conversation.

Thanks
Jeremy

Use Teams Feedback?

Surely if they get inundated with requests they have to listen to feedback. (I know I live in a parallel universe).