Every time I try to save a copy of one of the memes I find here to a Word file, I get this warning message. This just started happening a couple of days ago:
Microsoft Office has identified a potential security concern
This document contains fields that can share data with external files and websites. It is important that this file is from a trustworthy source.
Does anyone know what's going on?
It's because the jpeg file you're pasting contains EXIF data.
Normally, that data is benign, and is used indicate the parameters of device that took the picture (time, date, f-stop, iso, etc.). It may contain GPS data, which is the risk (but not your risk). Word got an update recently to remind users of this.
Often online providers will attach some descriptions or tags as well (probably your case).
MS Word is too dumb to know the difference... so you can save to desktop and use an exif data remover (tons of free ones out there) or find "remove personal data" in Word (usually under File -> document properties) before saving.
Thanks for the explanation, fren! With all of the recent games big tech has been playing on us, it made me nervous about downloading when I saw the warning -- especially when it started appearing all of a sudden. I wanted to make sure they weren't sticking something to the memes to track us, or some such weirdness. In this day and age, you can't be too careful.
I implemented a great fix for this 25 years ago --don't use software from MS.
It would be remiss of me to let this thread slide by without giving a shoutout to alternatives:
https://www.libreoffice.org/
Free, downloadable, cross-platform, no microsoft spywares or nastiness, and compatibility with importing legacy microsoft formats with hopefully minimal formatting differences.
Nailed it.
Wouldn't it be easier to just save the jpeg, rather than copy an image into word? Or am I missing something?
I've just been right-clicking on the photo, and copying image, then pasting it into a document. I've been doing this for months and now I'm suddenly getting this message on every meme I click on. I don't know if I should be concerned about this or not.
Could snip it instead. I think the key command is windows key + shift + s and then snip it and paste into word.
This worked! Thanks, fren! You learn something new every day here. :-)
I have none of these "problems". I have used Linux for the past 23 years. I use OpenOffice for work. No Window$ software in my house. End of story.
I tried that....it didn't work. :-(