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abrownaus
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Mar 03, 2022
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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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    TonyRedmond
    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.

     

    https://office365itpros.com/2024/09/04/teams-pasted-text/

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John_Bloggs655
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Aug 19, 2024

241898 

 


I just looked at it again. It turns out there are many different ways of copying: all with inconsistent behavior.

 

Teams "Chat" tab

  1. 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)
  2. select with selection cursor from timestamp until end of message and then copy only copies message and message has double spacing
  3. select with selection cursor from timestamp beyond end of message and then copy copies weekday, time, author and message, single spacing
  4. select with selection cursor from before timestamp beyond end of message and then copy copies summary, weekday, time, author and message, single spacing
  5. tripple click only selects 1 line (includes wrapping)
  6. right click or tripple dot has no option for copying, only for sharing in outlook

Teams "Teams" tab

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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241898
Brass Contributor
Apr 29, 2025

These are poor functional design choices, it’s important we make those core features consistent and functional. I bet Dieter Rams and Jony Ive would agree with you!