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Has this facility been changed/withdrawn in an update?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
    2025-02-26T13:37:42+00:00

    am late to the game and the answer may be in here already..

    I am able to replicate what used to work by SELECTING the entire message text then doing a FORWARD from the MORE OPTIONS ellipsis..

    A box appears that shows the message with teh metadata inside it.. You can then SELECT all that to COPY and PASTE.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-26T08:19:56+00:00

    Developer here. Actually I have the same Problem. I work full remote and most conversations happen via Chat. It saved me a ton of time to be able to copy important conversations into Obsidian. Now I have to summarize discussions and hope not to forget important details. (It's always the missing details that F you up the most later)

    Use case

    When stuff gets postponed and I have to continue working on it weeks later the interface of teams is simply not powerful enough to figure out what was discussed when about which topic. I might have had several different conversations with different people concerning a particular Task. But Teams only gives me a continuous log of one person at a time, with all sorts of other Topics in between what I am looking for. It also does not work offline. So when traveling I can't even reference it. Yes even in 2025 Germany still has no good mobile data coverage. So unless something major happens on that front, the copy and paste was the way to go. Can't understand why they needlessly disabled that. It makes live so much harder.

    If there is no change here soon, we will for the development Team, spin up our own jabber instance instead. There we can decide what happens and what not.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T21:17:13+00:00

    Excellent point. If only MS listened...

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T15:27:04+00:00

    Or, as any product company would easily guess, provide a setting to choose from. With a default set on what is perceived to be the most common use for the feature, maybe, which I STRONGLY doubt is to strip out arbitrary information from a copy text operation.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T15:27:00+00:00

    I agree. Ultimately, why does it have to be so cut and dry. How about an OPTION? Check boxes are wonderful. It solves the problem to just give people the choice. Why take out a feature instead of just allowing a choice?

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