I found this out the hard way, too. I had pasted an Excel Chart into
Word and sent the document, only to find out that the entire
spreadsheet had been included. It is also true of any of the Office
applications, as well as many other, non-Microsoft products. If you
paste an Excel Worksheet, or a Visio Diagram, etc., it seems that the
entire contents of the file is included in order to provide a copy
that can be completely reproduced and edited within the host
application.

Now I usually paste as a Picture or Bitmap. If I need to be even more
cautious, I print the excerpt to PDF and send that instead.

"stebro" wrote in message
...
Today I sent an email that I wish I'd never sent - all because of an
undocumented "feature" in MS Office. I maintain a spreadsheet of personal
items with many tabs which happens to include a personalized calendar in
one
of the tabs. I wanted to cut and paste the calendar into the email as a
visual of what I was trying to explain. In Excel I selected about 40
cells
and "copied" it to the clipboard, then went to Outlook and selected "Paste
Special" and selected Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object. Wha-la! My
40
cells appeared in the email just as I intended - looked great - so I sent
it.

One of my co-workers came to me after he noticed the huge size of the
email
and showed me that what I had just done was sent all of my personal
information - with the entire workbook (every blessed tab) to our entire
business unit.

O.K. Microsoft - what the *#%% is this all about? Since when did paste
40
cells mean paste the entire workbook ???????

Oh, if only the purpose of my existence is to serve as a warning to others
that they would heed..... Sign me - depressed & embarrased (and make
me
the poster child for the next Southwest airlines "wanna get away?" ad...)