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Teams Copying text includes persons name
- Sep 04, 2024
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.
triple-clicking didn't work for me either.
Doff of the cap to vldl-fan on reddit:
"Select the text, and while still holding the mouse button down, press ctrl+c."
...includes names & timestamps. It's not as nicely formatted as it was when it was part of the normal copy.
nikita - can you just put a default copy operation in settings as either "message only" or "message + author + timestamp", and allow an override via a right-click option??
patjo24 Please follow the steps correctly. The bug is in Ctrl+C and NOT the context menu.
It does happen in the context menu only in older versions of Windows (legacy context menu)
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As a senior dev and quality engineer, I classify this as a defect based on the following observations:
1 - the experience is inconsistent between the context menu, ctrl+x, legacy context menu, and hover menu (win11+).
2 - the copied content does not match the highlighted content, which violates the UX principle where the highlighted content is the one associated with the action.
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I urge development to take this seriously, as Teams is an enterprise software and issues like this lead to continuous discomfort. At least eight co-developers voiced their frustration about this issue in my company alone, and while this isn't causing data loss, it is causing performance degradation and frustration.