Comments on: Cut and Hate: Firefox 1.5 + Outlook = composing madness

Question: Cut and Hate: Firefox 1.5 + Outlook = composing madness

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:47:45 -0800

Firefox 1.5 + Outlook: cut-and-paste becomes cut-and-hate. Copying any text (URLs, content, source) and pasting into the content of an Outlook 2000 message instead attaches the text. Help?

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:48:12 -0800

I do not recall this being the issue with my earlier rev of Firefox and figure this came with the upgrade. I'm sure there's some about:config hack that I can't google up...

By: Manjusri

Manjusri — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:54:19 -0800

FYI: This is not the case for Outlook 2002. So upgrading is one possible solution.

By: Sharcho

Sharcho — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:04:25 -0800

Try installing the Copy Plain Text extension

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:17:44 -0800

Thanks, Sharcho, that did the trick. I've never much been a fan of the copy-as-formatted default anyways (I mean, really, why would I want their style to begin with?)

By: phearlez

phearlez — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:37:04 -0800

You can also use "Paste Special" and pick 'unformatted text' rather than just using control-v. Personally I would rather alter my behavior at the paste phase than use copy plain text and alter my behavior at the copy phase.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:18:41 -0800

phearlez writes "You can also use 'Paste Special' and pick "unformatted text" rather than just using control-v"

I use paste special in office so much i've mapped it to the key sequence Ctrl+B. One of these days I've got to record a macro to select unfoormated text at the same time.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:17:42 -0800

Yeah, "Paste Special" was one of the first things I looked for. Outlook 2K doesn't include it.

It turns out the plugin doesn't fill my needs completely as I still have a problem copying source code. Less of an issue there, but still, would be nice to definitively turn it off.