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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.
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.
- 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.
I just looked at it again. It turns out there are many different ways of copying: all with inconsistent behavior.Teams "Chat" tab
- select with selection cursor from beginning of message until end of message and then copy only copies message and message has single spacing (this is good)
- select with selection cursor from timestamp until end of message and then copy only copies message and message has double spacing
- select with selection cursor from timestamp beyond end of message and then copy copies weekday, time, author and message, single spacing
- select with selection cursor from before timestamp beyond end of message and then copy copies summary, weekday, time, author and message, single spacing
- tripple click only selects 1 line (includes wrapping)
- right click or tripple dot has no option for copying, only for sharing in outlook
Teams "Teams" tab
- selecting part of message or entire message highlights the author as part of the selection too. But when copying it doesn't copy the author and timestamp.
- selecting part of message or entire message and including the author and timestamp highlights the author and timestamp as part of the selection. But when copying it doesn't copy the author and timestamp.
- selecting message including reply button copies author, timestamp, message and reply button text
I don't want to copy the timestamp and author by default. Because sometimes I want to copy a URL, or a command line command or some code. It doesn't work if there is garbage in front of it. Then I would have to copy it in a text file first and then select the part I want and copy again. This is tedious.
If I want to archive or quote a message a timestamp and author is important, but just the day of the week is not cutting it. I want full date (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS).
I don't want a summary prepended. I don't want double spacing. I don't want the reply button text.
They can add two copy options in context menu: 1) just message 2) including header (author and timestamp)Basically I want is what-you-select-is-what-you-copy, nothing more, nothing less, nothing altered (double spacing). How hard can this be?
I use Windows 11 with Teams latest version (24193.1805.3040.8975) on my PC.
John_Bloggs655
OS:
Microsoft Windows 11
Version 23H2 (OS Build 22631.3880)
Teams:Teams version 24193.1805.3040.8975.The client version is 49/24071128825.
