Haudy Kazemi wrote: > At 03:13 AM 10/1/2005 -0500, greg wm wrote: >>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. > > So MS Word is dumping junk tags into the emails...can you paste without > formatting? (this is one the capabilities of the 'Paste Special' > command...I don't know if Tbird supports Paste Special). Either way, you > can enable pasting without formatting by following the instructions below, > copied from "Paste Without Formatting" > http://www.j-san.net/node/204#comment-2845 he does indeed want to paste stuff from word with formatting.. being denied that capability is, however, at least one step better than configuring tbird for plain text mode. i hope this will hold him long enough for an actual fix to come down the pike.. thank you, greg Greg Whitley Mott IT Coordinator NonviolentPeaceforce.org