That’s a really silly reason to switch to Internet Explorer. I think you should investigate the reason for this, including the possibility that some SpyWare may have messed up your system to cause this behaviour. You should also try pasting that text into other applications such as Windows Notepad, Corel’s WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org’s Text Editor, etc., and if the problem doesn’t occur there then you’ll know it’s a problem specific to MS-OutLook (and you’ll need to ask Microsoft to fix it — they’re the leaders in the industry at this, obviously evident by the massive numbers of updates they release so often).

The only thing I ever use Internet Explorer for is Windows Updates, and testing the web sites I build/modify to ensure that nothing strange is going to happen (this is usually only an issue when using fancy JavaScript code, basic CSS, or complicated HTML tables).

Unfortunately I’m not very pleased with Mozilla as of late because Netscape is using Internet Explorer APIs to render certain web pages — get with the program folks, don’t you understand that the main reason people don’t want to use Internet Explorer is because they don’t want applications to install automatically without their consent? Now that Microsoft is making “arrangements” with Mozilla/Firefox to share icons, I’m left suspicously wondering “What’s next?”

I use Opera for all my web browsing. Version 8.5 is free (without banner ads), and I find that it generally renders web pages faster than Netscape, Mozilla/Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Most importantly, however, like Mozilla’s Firefox it’s not riddled with security holes, some of which were probably design flaws due to facilitating automatic updates to the underlying Operating System (I firmly believe that the Windows Updates should be a stand-alone application and not be part of a web browser).

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Randolf Richardson - randolf@inter-corporate.com
Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.inter-corporate.com/

I figured that I would simply revert back to 1.0.7 . Wrong!!! I could not find a link to earlier versions. As much as I hate using I.E., I do need a browser that will allow me to copy and paste text into other applications.