pasted images appear as place holders in Outlook 2003 (since updatingform IE6 to IE7)

[Lo]

Hi,

Since we migrated our environment from IE6 to IE7, many users have
complained about not being able to see the images they copy/paste
between Outlook messages.

Our environment: Win XP SP2 + Office 2003 SP2/SP3

Steps for reproducing the problem:
-in Outlook 2003, double-clic a message containing an embedded image,
right-click the image and select COPY
-close the message,create a new message and paste in the body of the
message: a place holder with a red cross is pasted instead of the image

Problem does not appear if any of these conditions is met:
-rollback to IE6 (we won't do this)
-upgrade to Office 2007 (we can't do this)
-the original window (containing the embedded image) stays open when
pasting (few users do that)
-the read pane is open (many users dislike the reading pane and
deactivate it)
-Word is the default email editor (it is not the case in our company)

The last three points are workarounds, not solutions. We have 2000+
users, I am looking for a definitive fix.

Any idea?

Lo

 

[Chris]

I have this same exact issue. It occurs after upgrading from IE6 to IE7 on
Windows XP SP2 with Office 2003 SP2 and even SP3.

With IE6 installed, I open an email which has text and images, I select part
or all of the message (including a few embedded images), and then can copy
all of that into a new email, word, wordpad, mspaint, etc.

Once IE7 is installed, this functionality ceases. The text copies fine
however the images appear not to even make it to the clipboard to be pasted
into word, mspaint, etc.

If I remove IE7 (basically going back to IE6) copying and pasting works
again as usual.

Googling the answer found a few other people having this same issue within
the last 30 days.

Anyone have an thoughts?

 

[Sci1234]

I have the same problem (and I am already on IE7), was working fine for a
year, now it just stopped working (same issue if I use snipper).