How to copy teams chat with Timestamp?

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.

I'm glad you've found a work-around that works for you.

It doesn't work for me.

I don't see why we should have to pay MS for the removal of functionality that I didn't want removed!

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.

I will have to agree, this is a necessary component for several business environments. A simple toggle to strip the extra code that is preventing direct screen copy and paste is all that is needed.

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.)