Forum Discussion
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.
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.