Pasting is Blocked in Outlook Email ??? Why, How! Arhhh

[inspired121]

Hello people,
This one has been bugging me for many months. I am not sure when it started... but it certainly had a "start" time... most likely after a security patch or something thru auto updating Win XP or Office XP.

What I find is that when I try to paste something into an Outlook XP (2002) email, a little Yellow Key icon is all that gets pasted... Essentially pasting is blocked.
I have found that the only way I can get around this is that I have to DO NOTHING except COPY the text from its source and then jump to the email (which has to be ready and waiting) and then PASTE. If I do anything in between, even something simply like typing into the email or typing an address into the TO box etc... then when I go to paste it is blocked with this little yellow key appearing.

This is a real pain in the arse yet I have not managed to find anything on the MS support site or anywhere on the net that describes this issue. It must be happening to other users...???

I would certainly like to turn this "microsoft security feature" off. Any ideas? Ever heard of this?

Thanks a great deal,

Jonathan

 

[Dreamboat]

What's your default message format, Jon? Try HTML. It's the best to use for your purposes.

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[inspired121]

Hi there,
I actually use HTML by default.
The problem seems to mainly occur when I am using HTML format... especially if I copy content from an HTML email or webpage over to a new HTML email.
It does also happen on TEXT emails, but instead of a little yellow key appearing where my pasted text was meant to go, it just puts nothing in there at all.

I know this is some kind of security "feature" MS has put in there... and I would greatly love to get rid of it. It is a real pain in the butt.

Cheers,

Jonathan