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Ever since this month and while using the new team application, I can no longer copy teams chat message with the timestamp. I need the timestamp to reference conversations and it would be a pain to add the time and date stamps for every message I need to copy. Also I found that you can copy messages with a partial timestamp by highlighting the chat messages and press control c while holding the right click button on my mouse. This also doesn't help as I get a preview message with double names. It would be a pain to remove part of a line per chat message I am copying. Is there a way to restore the old copying with the timestamp and an option for those who don't want the timestamp. I know skype had this functionality.
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Months ago the timeestamp functionality broke, but now it's worse, now the workaround of pressing ctrl+c while still holding the mouse button (with the time highlighted) doesn't work.
Why is this feature being made progressively worse?
The same question regarding ANY update for example in thread:
Has MS considered ANY of all these customer complaints since August 2024?
Any update on this?
That does seem to work. But in addition to requiring more work it also seems to capture only one message at a time.
Good to know, but still not a viable solution.
On the Mac, the closest transfer option is to highlight the message option-click (right click) to "share via Outlook."
This copies the conversation to an editable email, with the timestamps.
But you don't have to send—from there you can actually copy all the pertinent info (timestamp included) and paste elsewhere.
Either way, it's an extra step or two than what we'd like it to be.
I've excluded the "forward" function, but that is also another means to "transfer" the message to someone else.