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Has this facility been changed/withdrawn in an update?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
    2024-09-10T20:15:12+00:00

    Please bring back the old copy paste option as it is required to capture times and when we respond to users and record our SLA times. This is a most important feature which is required.

    I don't understand why someone would not want such a feature. I believe every other chat application has this feature why remove this from teams.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-11T10:06:14+00:00

    Regular copy/paste option does not work as an offered work-around,
    hope this is solved quickly; it is very annoying

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-18T23:54:17+00:00

    I tried the work-around with an added step.

    selecting the message with Time Stamp and name of the person you want, and while still holding the mouse button down, press CTRL + C and CTRL + V

    THEN

    use your mouse to click the part of document you want to copy the selection to and lastly press CTRL+V.

    This will add 3 lines before each section of text.

    1. <first part of text>...by <name>
    2. <name>

    3.<time>

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-19T01:55:07+00:00

    Indeed, this works, though formatting is rather awkward. This is better than nothing, obviously but MS should simply bring back the old functionality.

    Thank you.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-19T08:18:31+00:00

    Thanks, happy to have this work around.

    What does it, is the holding of the mouse button after selecting and then pressing CTRL-C in Teams.

    The CTRL-V directly while holding the mouse in Teams is not needed.

    Afer that you can paste tekst to your destination file.

    And indeed lay-out is awkward; reply's are pasted twice...

    Still better than no metadata.

    Thanks for your comment!

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