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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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Yes, please, please, please, Microsoft: go back to the way it was OR GIVE USERS A CHOICE!! It is imperative to capture WHO said what (and when) not simply what was said.
Please Microsoft, let us choose!
I agree that sometimes copying was a mess and that might be the reason why some users complained. Sometimes copying was copying things like "has context menu" that didn't belong to the conversation. But to have a choice can't be bad! Make it default if you want but seriously Microsoft. We need this.
Very nice to have the whole picture. Thanks for that, indeed.
Also good to see that after a few comments with the same opinion in this Reddit thread, a comment follows that leads back to this thread😉
Now this workaround stopped working. This needs to be fixed.