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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 th...
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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?
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.
- Ok. Can you tell me what your test conditions are? What versions, platform. Etc.
Impacted Versions:
Yes, this impacts all versions of Classic Teams, "The New Teams", and the web version.
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Reproduction Steps:
1- triple-click the text to highlight the conversation
2- Press ctrl+c (happen when using the legacy context (right click) menu, does NOT happen when using the modern Windows 11 hover context menu)
3- paste in the notepad.
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User Experience:
This bug produces unintended copying of user information and leads the user to edit every clipped text, which is very common as users copy/paste conversations to relay communication between private and group chats and teams. They sometimes even use Teams to copy entire one-page articles, and so on.
The general perception is when you copy a highlighted content, only that which is highlighted is copied, otherwise people will consciously edit their selection; but in this instance it feels that this notion is violated as Teams "Sneaks in" user data and timestamp.
