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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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It would be helpful to at least be able to toggle between the two options. Some of us need the timestamps for business purposes. Some of us don't want the feature all of the time when we need to forward text. If we could toggle between the settings in our settings, it would be appreciated.
push! I need this too.
please let me mark the text and give me two right click options:
copy
copy with username/timestamp
It would be helpful to at least be able to toggle between the two options. Some of us need the timestamps for business purposes. Some of us don't want the feature all of the time when we need to forward text. If we could toggle between the settings in our settings, it would be appreciated.
I was able to accomplish this HOWEVER the format appears in a complete run-on sentence.
So yes I also request restoration to the former setting.
The workaround worked for me HOWEVER this is what happened:
(repeated sentences) So I also request restoration of the former setting.
you have open encounter FYI by Br r P7:21 AM
you have open encounter FYI
i know i will take care of it in a minute by Bh M.7:22 AM.
i know i will take care of it in a minute
Eben-Ezer, that works pretty well, except not always.
It seems to work best if I start my copy at the header line, the part with the line -------- Today -------
or ----------- Monday, November 25 -----------
Select Today, or Monday, and drag down, all the way to the "Type a message" box.
Continue to hold the mouse down and use Ctrl+c.
At that point I was able to release the mouse (eeek!) and paste the text.
It even pasted the dates, like:
Friday, November 22
...
Monday, November 25
...
I still have to clean up all the summary line "ya dee dah... by Lastname, Firstname" and append the time to the sender.
(Those are done with wildcard search replaces, for me, in an Outlook email, Word should work too.)