just normal word doc. we're using windows 2000 & office 2000, all critical windows updates and all office updates applied. (the installs are quick, but the updates.. having a win2k+sp4 install CD is a big help..) i've written mel asking for a sample word doc.. thank you.. -greg Keith Bachman wrote: > 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 <mailto:tclug at greatlakedata.com>> wrote: > 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