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Pressing Ctrl + C only lets you copy the conversation. I cannot give specific examples because my work is confidential but. This is the reddit post that is talking about the issue I am talking about. Copying Sender Information No Longer a Thing? : r/MicrosoftTeams (reddit.com)
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It is now March of 2025. Over the last 6 months or so, this has worked, then not worked, worked again, and now it doesn't work. This is pretty sad, Microsoft. Get your **** together!
I say stop begging and start firing!!! That is the only thing they listen to. We should all buy pocket shares above 50% of the stock and vote the ceio out of his chair.
Agreed! It did work for a while when you were able to Highlight and while keeping left-click pressed, ctrl-c, and that would work. Now the time stamp no longer copies. It has to be done separately. One step forward with Microsoft, three steps back. Great job! How about just leaving it alone for a while before adding un-needed changes no one asked for? Just leave it alone.
@A Ja Pramshafer I have taken a screenshot and pasted into OneNote, then right-click and copy text from image.
You should then confirm it copied correctly as the OCR may miss some things.
Real bulky!
Could also open message in new window and use a scrolling screen-shot capture, then OCR it. (You'll have to research which tool you want to use for that. Greenshot is one I've heard of.)
Instead, I recommend, open the conversation in a new window. Click just above the line separating the conversation/text/message from the people you're chatting with, and then do Ctrl+a, Ctrl+c to copy all.
Paste wherever then clean up what you don't want.
It also works if you click on something like "------- Yesterday ----------", or "------- Last Read -------".
On the Previous page (my post on 20241216) I posted how to eliminate the summary " by " lines and how to append the time to the sender's name.
P.S. The copy also works for a chat within the main Teams window but opening the conversation in a new window helps eliminate more unwanted text, like the list of all the other people you're chatting with.
UGH! Do they just want us to forward messages? Some messages have data that should NOT be shared when I cannot modify the forwarded message. Do they want to make this product useless? What am I to do now? Take a screen shot to prove the sender, plus the date and time, then smudge out information that should not be shared? This gets more frustrating by the update.