The "fix" is either a modification to TBird's codebase, or maybe an extension (hey, that'd be cool!) although I have *no* idea what it would take to make one that would remove these erroneous tags...is this just a normal word document, or one from word saved as HTML locally, or what? (I can try to recreate the situation here, I've got Office 2003, and can get access to Office XP, 2000, and maybe even 97, so what version(s) are you using?) I can't write the code or extension, but I can at least help track it down :D Keith Bachman On 10/1/05, greg wm <tclug at greatlakedata.com> wrote: > > hi, > > we've hit a problem with thunderbird. apparently when you paste stuff > from Word into thunderbird, and your recipient uses outlook, outlook > then displays a raft of useless tags generated by word and ignored by > thunderbird, often so badly trashing the message as to render it > unreadable. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1777205 > > no way i'm going to convince our director to stop pasting stuff from our > vast array of Word documents. nor can i expect a friendly response to a > suggestion that he use plain text only. and of course there's no way we > can get all his correspondants to stop using outlook. you can't rule > people not even in your own organization. what's left? well it seemed > a miracle i got him to switch to thunderbird, but, it looks ominous now > we're running headlong into a switch back to outlook. > > help! i want some other solution! maybe a different email program? > > tia, > greg > > Greg Whitley Mott > IT Coordinator > NonviolentPeaceforce.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20051001/a694f6da/attachment-0001.htm