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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Has this facility been changed/withdrawn in an update?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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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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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)
>with ctrl+shift+c to include the metadata, and normal ctrl+c for just the text)
Ha, this is probably like 5,000 man-hours of work, too costly... :-)
This is a major issue for all Tech employees at my company, and we need the time stamp to document work. An original workaround was to select and hold the mouse button while selecting Control+C; however, that is now no longer working. The forward option is not feasible due to you can only forward 1 comment at a time and often need to capture hundreds of comments for conversations spaning multiple days. This is critical functionality Please advise on how to copy metadata in Teams chat.