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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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I am in total agreement with JustTryingToMaintainProductivity's comment on the subject.
This feature needs to come back. Copying messages with sender and timestamp is essential for documenting conversations properly, especially in a business context.
We use Teams daily to track decisions and raise issues, and this change has made it much harder to copy-paste messages into tickets, reports, or handovers. Manually adding timestamps or names every time just isn’t realistic.
I get that some users may not want metadata, but the solution is simple: give us a toggle in Settings. Let people choose whether copied messages include timestamps and sender names.
Removing this outright breaks workflows that were working fine for years. Please escalate.
I agree, and with settings option.
It would also be useful to be able to define a hotkey to do the copy (or not) regardless of the setting, making the setting the preferred user's default.
As for priority: This was more-or-less existing functionality before it was removed, so removing it has generated complaints and customer frustration where there were none before. It should be added/returned ASAP.
Customers wanted this capability made optional/controllable: not removed.
This feature needs to come back. Copying messages with sender and timestamp is essential for documenting conversations properly, especially in a business context.
We use Teams daily to track decisions and raise issues, and this change has made it much harder to copy-paste messages into tickets, reports, or handovers. Manually adding timestamps or names every time just isn’t realistic.
I get that some users may not want metadata, but the solution is simple: give us a toggle in Settings. Let people choose whether copied messages include timestamps and sender names.
Removing this outright breaks workflows that were working fine for years. Please escalate.
I support Tomas Taujanskas' comment 100%.