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by BarbaryCoast 1033 days ago
Well, that explains why, when I try to paste text into an Outlook email, I get an error "there's a problem with Word". (Then you hit Enter and paste again, which works fine.)

It's good to remember that Outlook isn't actually an email client. It was bought by Microsoft back in the days before TCP/IP became common. Outlook (still) calls messages "memos". The _first_ thing Outlook does with an RFC-compliant email is convert it into the Outlook "memo" format. There is no option to view the original email message at all. Microsoft simply bolted on a filter to deal with emails. I had hoped that the "Mail" client in Windows 10 would be a real mail user agent, but it's _worse_ than Outlook, without the excuse of predating email and being another program MS bought and rebranded.