Teams Chat - copy/paste

Yes, it is punishing! I had to download a full page screen shot add-in for google chrome to snippet conversations. (But it's not good because now i'm saving images of conversations, not the text to copy/paste) I run a construction company and we do tenders, a lot of tenders, largish 1-10 million range, and we have a tender chat for each tender. It's critical to be able to show a supervisor taking on a big job, what we considered during the tender phase, so they can quickly get up to speed around tricky detail and allowances. I do wonder if it's deliberate, not allowing a copy paste of entire chats due to some kind of privacy clause. Any who, looking forward to an update here!

I see I'm in good company looking for a solution for this issue. This is a poor design choice which could have simply been made optional via a configuration setting rather than removing it entirely.

There are many, many valid reasons for letting users copy the entire chat stream with details in place. Not the least that the function existed already and people were clearly using it.

I work in the accessibility area and meeting participants will often provide very useful commentary via chat - some because of their own accessibility requirements. Other users need to copy the chat out to an external document to be able to access it in the way they normally work because of their disability. Removing the names and timestamps creates even more barriers for people with disability and removes important contextual information.

Giant thumbs down on accessibility and equity Microsoft!
Perhaps Microsoft could think about the collective time and money spent by MS clients trying to resolve this simple issue?

The suggested workaround does not work and is not a solution.

The "noise" has been replaced by "garbage" that requires even more time to reformat, amend and fix to be useful.

Please look at this seriously Microsoft and provide a solution that is effective.

MS this is absolutely ludicrous - throwing my vote in here too

"Noise" you say, the precise reason for wanting to copy chats out is to get the Name/date time stamp

the workaround doesn't even work any more.. good on you MS, once again coming up with a solution for something that was never an issue in the first place.

I want this feature back!!

Adding my vote, my bemusement, my incredulity, my dismay.

Yes, there were times I didn't want the clutter. But there are also moments particularly in a long chat where it's reasonable to want to know who said what and when. It may be for business records, or perhaps when assembling an argument.

I wonder if this is a grand fail of product feedback... some users said "I want to able to cut and paste without clutter" and the whole design process proceeded in the same way they would a split test over whether a log out button should at the top right, or top left.

ie that the answer is one or the other. In this case the right answer is both - because it supports different use cases.

Bleurgh,