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Has this facility been changed/withdrawn in an update?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
    2025-02-28T09:25:36+00:00

    Yes we also want the old functionality. I think more people wants the old than the ones complaining it was cluttery.
    So Microsoft, if you are truly listening to your users, please bring back the old functionality.
    Specially now the 'workaround' to hold mouse down and do ctrl-C no longer works 🙈

    (or indeed as many suggest: give an option to do one of the two... perhaps in settings, or with ctrl+shift+c to include the metadata, and normal ctrl+c for just the text)

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-26T14:20:51+00:00

    Thank you, this is a good solution. However, one can do this for a single message only. The need is to often copy a whole thread... It just sounds like MS is laughing at the users.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-26T14:01:03+00:00

    ..... the only time consuming flaw with the "Forward" hack is it can only work on one response at a time. I used to highlight entire conversations and copy them. Now I have to do it one response at a time. So..... 30 seconds now becomes 2 minutes. Multiple by a day of cruical IM conversations.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-26T13:58:33+00:00

    wow!!! thank you!!! I just tested and that worked. Clumsy, time consuming, unintuitative. Everything we've come to expect from Microsoft.

    who needs to actually document a conversation, other than all of us who try to keep track of crucial conversations.
    Please Microsoft, come up with a workable solution - how hard can it be to give people an option - a) include metadata b) don't include metadata

    please, please, please

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