Copy Teams message with header without sender and link

h 271

Hello,

I tried searching, but couldn't find anything related to this.

Whenever I try to highlight and copy a message with a header from teams, it automatically highlights the entire thing and includes a lot of extra crap I don't want in the message when I copy it.

An example might look something like this:

[Tuesday 12:54] Ola NordmannExample header

This is the body of the message

And the end
<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/00:rm861cwr6sz6z3dofkgjjofjb9obds9g@thread.skype/9210939506821?tenantId=aql59goh-i8qu-7evk-hewg-8t5tk64rtr0g&amp;groupId=lpoipgbi-0qc2-grk2-nxpr-dnoq88u8t3gs&amp;parentMessageId=7242223525709&amp;teamName=Example&amp;channelName=General&amp;createdTime=8453144380541>

I can deal with most if it, although I don't want the time, sender or link. However, one particularly bad thing is that the sender name gets mashed in with the header, which makes it very hard to extract the contents from a normally copied message. Is there any way to disable or modify this behaviour? At least to properly split the sender and header?

This is on Teams version 1.4.00.26453, Ubuntu 21.04

JimmyYang-MSFT 54,246 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-01-06T09:20:22.227+00:00

Hi @h

Do you mean you could not exclude the sender when you copy the message with header from Teams client?

To reproduce your problem, I tried to test it in our environment but we did not reproduce your result, you could check it from the following steps:

1)Write a message with Header and send it to Teams member
2)Copy the message and send it to another users.
3)If you are not copy the sender, it will not paste the sender to your text.

If I misunderstand your requirements, please feel free to contact with us!
h 271 Reputation points

2022-01-06T10:09:01.887+00:00

Yes, whenever I highlight a message with header, it automatically highlights the entire thing. See attached. I am unable to simply copy the message and header without everything else.

The requirement is strictly for pasting content outside of Teams. If Teams handles things differently (it does seem to split the name and header properly, at least), that's great and all, but I would like to paste messages outside of Teams.
JimmyYang-MSFT 54,246 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-01-12T09:48:06.643+00:00

Hi @h

Yes, we also met the same problem.

If you want to make sure you only copy the header and content, it needs the strict copy ways. It is not convenient. At present, we did not find any direct ways to solve this problem clearly. As a workaround, it recommends you copy the content and header separately.

Meanwhile, you could try to create a feedback in Teams UserVoice. Microsoft will always focus on customer’s feedback and experience. Some new features would be added to the services based on customers' feedback in the future.
Gary Z 11 Reputation points

2022-01-13T19:21:21.49+00:00

If you try to copy the content, it will auto copy the header as well. The only way around it is to not copy all of the content, but that's annoying.
sflores 51 Reputation points

2022-02-17T15:57:16.993+00:00

I tried googling for this as well and was really surprised this was the only post I found regarding this. To add, I don't believe this function was always like this. I used to be able to simply double click the message, ctrl+c and ctrl+v without including the Name and Timestamp. I just don't understand how this tiny "feature" is even considered innovative or beneficial at all. It is extremely inefficient, and for something so simple, is a major waste of time. We typically send file paths to each other, so I would just copy and paste it right into explorer. Now, I have to click and drag the text, making sure I don't select any other part of the message, right click, click copy, and then I can paste it. They need to fix this.
Patrick White 11 Reputation points

2022-03-09T05:04:31.743+00:00

Microsoft Teams developers:
Please create this as a user-selectable radio box in Teams's settings. "Append Timestamp and Date when copying: []"
Ruslan 6 Reputation points

2022-03-09T15:47:33.01+00:00

Do they include an example how to do it?
Vlad Stremousov 1 Reputation point

2022-06-06T14:39:58.263+00:00

Please upvote here:

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/bb024cd9-648e-ec11-a81b-0022484c51ef
Ryan L 6 Reputation points

2023-01-10T00:06:29.79+00:00

The work around for us, though not fun should be the other way around, is highlight the text you mean to copy, right click, once the context menu comes up hold SHIFT then click copy.
Odell, Nathaniel 0 Reputation points

2023-03-22T20:36:29.6366667+00:00

I don't understand the logic of this even being a feature at all...
Lucas,J,Joseph,TDDM4 R 0 Reputation points

2023-04-03T13:54:05.85+00:00

Please make the timestamp and user information optional, its really annoying to have to remove every time
Tran Tieu Binh 0 Reputation points

2023-04-24T08:33:25.8633333+00:00

I signed up an account to vote for this thread. It is a very annoying feature.
Brandon Arnoldy 5 Reputation points

2023-05-08T14:19:58.07+00:00

The workaround I've found for this is highlighting the message from left to right, right to left selects the header.

I really wish that I could just double click my Teams messages again to copy them though, but alas...
JL 61 Reputation points

2023-06-21T20:50:42.2433333+00:00

@Brandon Arnoldy that's a great workaround for now. thanks for mentioning

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Zhang, Brian Yu 66 Reputation points

2022-04-12T19:28:25.543+00:00

Copy with timestamp and user information is really annoying feature.
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JL 61 Reputation points

2022-04-20T03:13:20.587+00:00

Signed up to upvote this. This is an incredibly annoying feature that slows down users. It should be behind a feature flag / setting
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AlK 46 Reputation points

2022-04-20T19:27:19.06+00:00

Who decided that when copying a text item from a chat message that including the sender, date,time stamp was a useful feature. Can we turn it off? Do I have to now install slack to be able to communicate and use something that should just work normally?

Worst. Feature. Ever
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BACCOUCHE Mohamed Amine 46 Reputation points

2022-05-27T11:22:38.35+00:00

here to express my frustration each time I forget this "feature" exists, and paste 100 lines for a word to copy
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Browne, Callan 31 Reputation points

2022-04-08T05:47:49.923+00:00

Signed up to say +1

very annoying new feature for teams mac client

thanks,
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