Teams Chat - copy/paste

The name, time, and date in conversation history are critical to Enterprise workflow and documentation. Not having this information negatively impacts productivity and accuracy when documenting conversations. We have over 1,000 tech employees leveraging Teams, and every one of those employees needs those time stamps to record work history accurately. People have already begun reverting back to email communications just so these discussions can be accurately captured. It is unacceptable to remove this functionality completely and not provide an alternate way of capturing metadata in teams chat. There used to be a workaround and now that has also been removed. Please fix this or advise on the process to escalate this at Microsoft.

No nothing of any use from MS.... crickets and tumbleweeds

As of 01.05.2025 no fix. Sucks :(

Also another Take on this:

It is ridiculous that all our data ends up in some AI Training set and is analyzed to death for some obscure ad revenue. But we have to beg our all so mighty MS Overlords if they are so kind and grateful so such they allow us to copy a tiny bit for our own records. About exporting all the messages into a tool that allows us to cross reference things, or god forbid, to bridge it with other chat networks we can't even think about in the current state of affairs.

That is what the Open Source people warned us about all along.

In the end: We have the choice. If our company forces us to use it. Fine. Its communicated which impact this has on our work. Evaluations are made to change it for our internal communication in the Team. With my private contacts I am not using Teams anymore. Its just to inconvenient with this limitation.

Thank you. You are right, holding the mouse button down is not needed for pasting. I thought it was a small detail that could be omitted. :-)