Remove Smart tags - in Excel XP

[MTM]

I use Office XP at work and when often when I paste something into Excel, I
get this little box with a down arrow next to the data. I have been told
that this is a "Smart Tag" I have tried to disable it but nothing seems to
work. I would like to entirely remove "Smart Tags" from my computer as they
seem to have no function but to annoy me. (when I first saw this, I was
confused as I never saw it when using Office 97 at home, which they won't let
me do at work).

 

[Tom Willett]

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/assistance/ha010347451033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030833081033.aspx

 

[MTM]

I would like to completely turn off Smart Tags - to make them completely
disappear & no longer come back to annoy me - possibly I was not clear in my
first post. This only seems to get rid of ones present at this time.
I do find it interesting that the US English link only seems to apply to
Word while the other link refers to all of Office.