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Teams Copying text includes persons name
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.
One workaround is simply selecting it with the selection cursor instead of triple click.
However I periodically forget that copying in teams works differently than all the millions of other applications and then it copies something I did not tell it to copy. This is extremely annoying.
Applications can and should assist you and provide you with optional choices that could increase productivity. Applications should NEVER make choices on your behalf and certainly not without asking first or without informing you.
Arrogant application: "you selected and copied A, but I think you actually wanted to copy A+B, so I copied that for you instead without asking you or even telling you (or showing B highlighted too). You are not allowed to refuse this feature, because I know what you want better than you do"
Nobody asked for this feature and many asked for the feature to be removed. In fact the user can always explicitly select the username and timestamp if that's desired so if a user needs it it was always available anyway.
John_Bloggs655 I found a hacky workaround.
Select the message text and hit SHIFT+LEFT ARROW before hitting CTRL+C to copy just the text+formatting without the name and time stamp.
This works with CTRL+C only and not the "Copy" option in the context menu. This works regardless of whether you select the message via selection cursor, triple click, or double click and CTRL+A.
@Microsoft this is NOT an acceptable workflow and does not solve the problem. Having to take my hand away from the CTRL key or off of the mouse to do a simple copy and paste is ridiculous. No other program I use has this issue.
Your trick only works in Teams' "Chat" tab, not in Teams' "Teams" tab. The cursor trick works in all situations, but it's tedious.
- I am one that wants date/time stamps copied if I include that in my selection. If I don't want the stamps then I just select the text of the message.
What Microsoft recently changed eliminated the ability to select a bunch of posts and copy/paste them with stamps. It now just includes the text of each person's message - but you can't tell who or when things were said so that is basically useless.
Microsoft, please put this back to the way it was.
