SmartTags copied from Word into Outlook email cause ActiveX warnin

[Guest]

Microsoft products should be smart enough not to warn about their own
(presumably digitally signed) ActiveX controls that are embedded in the HTML
that gets copied from one Office product to another. I am disappointed that
we have probably unwittingly sent out many emails to our clients (those who
also have Outlook and have not configured it to use Word to read emails) and
that they have received this mysterious ActiveX warning. We had several
people edit their Outlook 2003 email signatures with Word 2003 and that is
what made us aware of the bigger problem. Unfortunately, when Outlook 2003
inserts the signature with the SmartTags, it does not remove them and they
get sent along with the email.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

One solution to this is to prevent SmartTags from being included in Email by
changing an option in Word. In Word, Tools | Options | General | E-mail
Options | General -- uncheck the box for Save Smart Tags in E-mail.

 

[Guest]

This is great and thanks for the fast response.

However, it still does not solve the case where a user simply selects and
copies content from a Word document and then pastes it into an Outlook email
message when Outlook is NOT configured to use Word as the email editor. In
fact, that is the reason we even discovered it was an issue in the first
place. Some of our Outlook clients are configured to use Word as the editor
and others are not. It is the ones that are not that gives us the: "Your
current security settings prohibity running ActiveX controls on this page.
As a result, the page may not display properly."

I published another work around to our company that essentially tells them
how to remove Smart Tags prior to doing a copy. Any other ideas would be
appreciated.