Microsoft Teams Copying Name, Timestamp, and Message

Anonymous
2024-08-16T19:20:37+00:00

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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  1. 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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T19:24:17+00:00

    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

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-04T17:19:24+00:00

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

    I'm trying to herd people to this Feedback thread for up-voting:

    https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/4ed7c52a-af58-ef11-b4ad-0022484d3ecchttps://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/4ed7c52a-af58-ef11-b4ad-0022484d3eccbut

    ...but there are others on that platform too.

    The more up-votes one item gets, however, the greater chance someone at MS listens... *crosses fingers*

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-27T15:11:14+00:00

    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

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T17:40:41+00:00

    I was expecting to see the name, date, and time like normal when I was copying a message. I had also found it useful to have it included on other communication pieces.

    A workaround that worked for me is using the web version and copying the text from a MS Teams message like normal and it worked.

    Example:

    [10:36 AM] Tim Shivanonda (External)

    I wish I could copy text from the desktop application with the timestamp

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