How to copy teams chat with Timestamp?

Anonymous
2024-08-19T13:13:28+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2025-07-16T13:33:02+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-07-09T14:50:46+00:00

    need timestamps, names and images. why can't this be the same as copying from a Word document?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-07-08T06:03:02+00:00

    Thread from Nate Roberson in MS feedback portal to this topic(*) with presently the most upvotes (479 upvotes at 01.04.2025 / 507 at 11.04.2025 / 648 at 08.07.2025):

    Copying messages no longer includes the who/when context https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/4ed7c52a-af58-ef11-b4ad-0022484d3ecc

    It would be nice if you join there also with an upvote.

    (*): Microsoft should go back to the functionality before Aug. 2024 OR make at least configurable if timestamp/username is included in export or not.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T17:05:00+00:00

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

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-24T21:15:47+00:00

    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!

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