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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.
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.
wt9825vs wrote:
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.Microsoft, please don't listen to this person. Don't make it the way it was. The old behavior forced us to copy timestamps and user names even when we did not select it. The new behavior is inconsistent and illogical. Make it work for all of us.
Allow copying username and timestamps optionally. And make the timestamps full timestamps and not just weekdays. It shouldn't be rocket science to give two copy options. For archiving and citing you want full timestamps. For copying the content of a message you don't want things added to it, you didn't select.I agree having the names on every line is annoying , but copying no names for a chat doesnt make any sense either.
It seems they have reversed the previous functionality:
SHIFT+LEFT ARROW before hitting CTRL+C works to ADD names and timestamps now.