How to copy teams chat with Timestamp?

I don't understand either the reasoning (if any) involved in completely removing the functionality. I understand all the complaints about the reverse case, but until this last update (as applied at my location) there was a (mostly) reasonable mechanism to do this or to not do pull in the timestamps. The problem (as almost always with MS stuff...) was that the rules were not sufficiently visible.

That said and complained about, I have also had a problem with the way the data copy/pasted. I usually copy(ied) the data into a OneNote page, where it was mangled and still had to be manually cleaned up. Why? I dunno. Copying it into a text editor first made it easier to clean up (I didn't/don't need the repetition of the "...by..." line with 2 copies of the name concatenated with the timestamp), but it is (was) still an extra and unnecessary step. Come on! These are both MS products! Talk to each other!

For that matter, talk to a few customers who use the tool this way!

As of 20250224 16:32 CT, Teams V25017.203.3370.1174, I was able to copy & paste a conversation with sender and timestamps.

Select all the text (and unfortunately, other text of the window, such as the list of chats) by clicking just above the line separating the conversation from the sender(s) name(s), then move the mouse down over the conversation and use Ctrl+a which selects the entire conversation.

Then use Ctrl+c to copy it.

Paste where desired.

I find it is best to first open the chat in a new window (in the ellipsis "..." menu, upper right) as that separates the app list and chats list so those don't get copied too.

I posted the below earlier...

Cleanup: Remove all the junk before the actual part of the conversation you want. Remove any junk at the end of the parts you want.

Now I do this in Outlook with a find/replace. Your editor may have different find and replace regular expressions.

Remove all the summary lines: "ya dee da dee da ... by Firstname Lastname (and any other text)" and replace with new line...

Find:^13[^32-^126]@ by [A-Z][a-zA-Z -]@, [A-Z][a-zA-Z ()]@^13

Replace:^13

Next, append the time after the sender's name, with a separating space...

Find:^13([1-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{2}) ([AP]M)^13

Replace: \1:\2 \3^13

Note there is a space after the replace colon!

Of course, if you use 24-hour time (which I do on everything but my work computers) you'll have to modify the time find string.

In the first find, ^32-^256 are all the printable ASCII characters. Not sure what can be done with other languages using accented characters.

As you describe it, your solution works. If you do a Ctrl-A it (still) grabs everything, including the timestamps.

The problem is, I don't need or want to "grab everything". I just want to grab the last part of my running conversation with one of a couple dozen customers with whom I've been conversing sometimes for months. Ctrl-A just generates (sometimes a lot of) manual clean-up work. Not a viable solution for me.

As for the rest: I haven't yet reached the point of writing a macro to clean stuff up. I've found that if I drop it into a text editor (not WordPad or Word or Excel) I can just go through and delete the '...by...' lines and I'll still have the who & when without the repetition. I could write a script to remove the garbage...but since I'm usually copying a relative few lines I've not (yet) found the need to do so.

Of course, I can't do this when also copying pictures/images, but that happens a lot less often.

Dear Eben-Ezer,
Thanks for the workaround which worked some month - but now it does n o t w o r k anymore...
Let's hope for a solution soon...
Best regards

This method is no longer working in TEAMS software version 25017.203.3370.1174. Do you have a way to copy with timestamp?