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Teams Copying text includes persons name
Hello,
sometimes at my work we send each other links to files/folders on our internal server. The only problem is in teams when you do that you get the persons name instead of the link.
So they sent me a link to a folder, I select the link in the text and copy it. However if past that into windows explorer I just get the time and their name.
[15:12] Firstname Lastname
Is there a way to get it to not include the Firstname Lastname when you copy a message?
kind regards,
Andrew
Microsoft finally saw the light and made the change...
Teams Improves Text Pasting and Mic Pending
Thankfully, Teams pasted text no longer contains a timestamp and the author’s name. The change is effective worldwide and addresses a longstanding irritation. Quite why it took so long for Microsoft to understand how people felt about the insertion of unwanted metadata is a mystery, but it’s gone now. And in other news, Mic Pending is a new feature for Teams calls and meetings.
- This is a kind of weird feature. We lose lot of time removing each time the name, the time and the new line.
Now, the feature is that it copies also the following message....
Please, could you please make copy and paste normal as in any other application?
Thanks!this is not a feature, it is a bug... you can't just "put a hat on a bug and call it a feature". PLEASE FIX, THIS BUG REDUCES USER PERFORMANCE
- I think MS will call this a defect, instead of "bug",
IMO, there should be a better "copy", and a feature "FW"!!!...
normally, what I do is
1, for link , right click, then have "copy link"
2, for content, select from the end to the beginning, not the other way
this is inconvenient as well, but at least these work(face palm)
abrownausMy issue is that when I copy text messages out of a Teams chat, it has stopped copying my name and the time stamp. I count on that being there, and suddenly it's not, and Teams makes it very difficult to go back and grab the name & time stamp separately. Between your message and this one (two years), has MS made it possible to turn that off or on?
DavidStever I have the same behavior, when I copy a message it does not copy the name and time stamp anymore.
I use to find that very handy.
Why can't MS just make is so that you copy whatever is selected!? Much easier.Not on Windows 11 Teams latest version (24193.1805.3040.8975) on my PC. Teams "chat" copying works perfectly. It's Teams "Teams" that is the problem.
In Teams "chat" you will copy what you select with the cursor: message alone, name and date alone, or name and date plus message. Just tested it. It still works perfectly in Windows 11. It's just that double clicking on the message also selects the name plus date. I wish I could change that default behavior.
In Teams "Teams". It copies also the name and date if you didn't select it. That is the main problem. I explicitly select the message to copy and it copies the name and date toom that is wrong.
- Don't tell someone they are wrong. It might work for you, that doesn't mean it works for everyone.
DavidStever The new functionality is considerably better. If you want the name and time just triple click on the message. This is a great update for the majority of users.
- I copy Teams conversations a lot, for ticket support logs, having the name and time stamp was handy for that reason.
I tried tripple click like you said, that didn't work.
I'm also frustrated with this bug. Please make just normal Copy feature, Microsoft.
The current copy including persons name is weird and ridiculous. It hampers work efficiency.
I always have to delete unnecessary lines after pasting, which is rather frustrating.
- Have exactly same problem - very annoying. Why should i do this extra work to copy link, paste it to notepad, copy only link part and then paste it ?
This should not work like this. It is terrible user experience.Still same.
Imagine copy address from address bar and all we got is the word "Google Chrome"
Whoever decided that appending extra text to the text that user is copying should not be the one that makes user experience decisions at any company.
- The teams UX is so consistent in how awful it is that theres gotta be like one person at Microsoft whos sole purpose is to seek out and find the worst implementation possible for every feature. I cannot fathom any other reason for how everything is wrong.
I, for one, do not consider this a defect or a bug. I copy from MS Teams a lot and save it into my Service Tickets and my personal work notes. Knowing the user and date\time is important to me because I refer to my old tickets and work notes when I need to contact an engineer or some other third-party for guidance or information.
I noticed that today (2024.08.16) that I can no longer copy all that information. I need Microsoft to configure MS Team to accommodate both our requests, that is to say, be able to copy user date and time and be able to excise that information.- Same issue affects me too. Please fix!
MSFT any update???? This is a terrible issue that affects Intel employees multiple times a day.
- This is indeed the worst feature I've even seen.
22K views, FIX it Microsoft!!!! This is still a problem. Fix this bug
edevcnI have just started using Teams, cause my company does, not of free will, and I cannot believe the level of incompetence. This "feature" is the most annoying thing I have ever seen, how can you not account for the users coping and pasting stuff from the message app, you gotta be a crazy or an evil person to go for this approach. Mind blowing!!!
- Hi,
triple-clicking didn't work for me either.
Doff of the cap to vldl-fan on reddit:
"Select the text, and while still holding the mouse button down, press ctrl+c."
...includes names & timestamps. It's not as nicely formatted as it was when it was part of the normal copy.
nikita - can you just put a default copy operation in settings as either "message only" or "message + author + timestamp", and allow an override via a right-click option??patjo24 Please follow the steps correctly. The bug is in Ctrl+C and NOT the context menu.
It does happen in the context menu only in older versions of Windows (legacy context menu)
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As a senior dev and quality engineer, I classify this as a defect based on the following observations:
1 - the experience is inconsistent between the context menu, ctrl+x, legacy context menu, and hover menu (win11+).
2 - the copied content does not match the highlighted content, which violates the UX principle where the highlighted content is the one associated with the action.
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I urge development to take this seriously, as Teams is an enterprise software and issues like this lead to continuous discomfort. At least eight co-developers voiced their frustration about this issue in my company alone, and while this isn't causing data loss, it is causing performance degradation and frustration.
