Teams Chat - copy/paste

I didn't read through this whole thread but the workaround that I noticed with the macOS version of Teams is to click the 3 dots next to the first message in the thread and select the option "Share to Outlook". Then an Outlook new email window will pop up. The body of that email will be the Teams thread with names and response times listed. You can then copy-and-paste this email body to wherever you want. Don't know if this will work in the Windows version of Teams but seems like it should.

I'll also add my 2 cents that having to do all this just to copy-and-paste a Teams thread with names and timestamps for archival and documentation needs is ridiculous. We should be able to just copy-and-paste directly in the Teams app like we used to be able to do.

This is a major issue for all Tech employees at my company, and we need the time stamp to document work. An original workaround was to select and hold the mouse button while selecting Control+C; however, that is now no longer working. The forward option is not feasible due to you can only forward 1 comment at a time and often need to capture hundreds of comments for conversations spaning multiple days. This is critical functionality Please advise on how to copy metadata in Teams chat.

wow!!! thank you!!! I just tested and that worked. Clumsy, time consuming, unintuitative. Everything we've come to expect from Microsoft.

who needs to actually document a conversation, other than all of us who try to keep track of crucial conversations.
Please Microsoft, come up with a workable solution - how hard can it be to give people an option - a) include metadata b) don't include metadata

please, please, please

Developer here. Actually I have the same Problem. I work full remote and most conversations happen via Chat. It saved me a ton of time to be able to copy important conversations into Obsidian. Now I have to summarize discussions and hope not to forget important details. (It's always the missing details that F you up the most later)

Use case

When stuff gets postponed and I have to continue working on it weeks later the interface of teams is simply not powerful enough to figure out what was discussed when about which topic. I might have had several different conversations with different people concerning a particular Task. But Teams only gives me a continuous log of one person at a time, with all sorts of other Topics in between what I am looking for. It also does not work offline. So when traveling I can't even reference it. Yes even in 2025 Germany still has no good mobile data coverage. So unless something major happens on that front, the copy and paste was the way to go. Can't understand why they needlessly disabled that. It makes live so much harder.

If there is no change here soon, we will for the development Team, spin up our own jabber instance instead. There we can decide what happens and what not.

Thanks, happy to have this work around.

What does it, is the holding of the mouse button after selecting and then pressing CTRL-C in Teams.

The CTRL-V directly while holding the mouse in Teams is not needed.

Afer that you can paste tekst to your destination file.

And indeed lay-out is awkward; reply's are pasted twice...

Still better than no metadata.

Thanks for your comment!