MC1250273 | (Updated) Improved copy and paste support for @mentions and shared contacts in Microsoft Teams

Service

Microsoft Teams

Last Updated

2026-08-05T18:05:53.163Z

Published

2026-03-12T23:41:19Z

Message ID

MC1250273

Updated August 5, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Microsoft Teams is improving the copy and paste experience for messages that contain @mentions, shared contacts, and other supported @tags. Previously, when users copied and pasted messages containing mentions, those mentions could be converted into plain text and lose their interactivity. With this update, Teams preserves supported tags during copy and paste whenever possible. If a tag is valid in the destination conversation, it remains interactive and behaves the same way as when originally authored. If the tag cannot be used in that context, it safely falls back to plain text while preservin...

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