Teams Chat - copy/paste

Anonymous
2024-08-28T07:54:37+00:00

When in Chats in Teams we used to copy conversations and paste them into other docs. This brought across name/date and chat text.

Now when we do this it only brings across the text; name/date are missing. This causes issues for us as we cannot keep accurate records.

Has this facility been changed/withdrawn in an update? Is there a workaround?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-07-09T23:03:22+00:00

    For people who have to log this information into other systems providing support - this is a brain dead fix - please provide a way to include the metadata without having to resort to "kludges" accessing an API which is also a pain to deal with. I can see why so many customers are losing interest in MS products. When these types of decisions are made without considering the impact to those who are quietly using the system. This is another example why I stopped recommending MS products to clients, customers , friends and family.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-12T18:31:25+00:00

    I will give this a shot and post a response thereafter.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-03T20:50:27+00:00

    This is not feasible! Just imagine doing this on a long discussion with a hundred or more responses.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-06-03T20:46:12+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-06-02T22:47:21+00:00

    Thanks for the feedback JC, so close but still not working! Not or windows anyway.
    Very grateful for the possibility - far more than MS seems to offer for such a simple and useful feature.

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