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Has this facility been changed/withdrawn in an update?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
    2025-02-25T15:18:02+00:00

    When will this be fixed?
    There is a large segment of IT Support, Customer Service and other professions that need to be able to EASILY and SIMPLY copy and paste the conversations, INCLUDING the person and time stamp.
    The work around does not work reliably, causing one to attempt to copy a couple of times before we capture the missing data.

    As I understand the reason to remove that capability, a basic and handy functionality within the entire scope of Microsoft products, was to appease developers and programmers who only wanted the text.

    I would politely suggest those user groups use their skills to strip out the data they do not want and let the rest of use have the use of one of the most basic of processes, cut, copy and paste.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-24T18:52:12+00:00

    yes, and the work around only worked briefly for me using the web version and then stopped working. Same thing happened at home - worked briefly and then stopped.

    I've completely lost the ability of documenting conversations for my notes w/o taking twice as long to do it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-24T18:19:44+00:00

    Without the workaround, this really needs to be fixed. The Export API is overkill for grabbing a few messages.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T16:30:08+00:00

    most of us don't have rights to the admin section

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T16:26:52+00:00

    This method worked for me...... until today (2/21/25)..... when it stopped working and all I get is text w/o the user or time information

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