Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with an Outlook 2007 issue, I have just
upgraded from 2003.

I have set my mail format to plain text which I prefer to HTML. I used this
setting in Outlook 2003 and everything was fine, but I find in 2007 if I try
and reply to an incoming message the reply text is crunched to the left,
rather than across the whole of the screen.

This problem does not occur if I change to HTML, but then that create other
problems like doube spacing when using ENTER (rather than SHIFT ENTER), Enter
is something I have got used to over the years.

I assume in Outlook 2007 I can't disable Word as the text editor like you
could in previous versions?



"Ashley" wrote:

> Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with an Outlook 2007 issue, I have just
> upgraded from 2003.
>
> I have set my mail format to plain text which I prefer to HTML. I used this
> setting in Outlook 2003 and everything was fine, but I find in 2007 if I try
> and reply to an incoming message the reply text is crunched to the left,
> rather than across the whole of the screen.
>
> This problem does not occur if I change to HTML, but then that create other
> problems like doube spacing when using ENTER (rather than SHIFT ENTER), Enter
> is something I have got used to over the years.
>
>

Ashley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I assume in Outlook 2007 I can't disable Word as the text editor like
> you could in previous versions?

Correct, but I've got it behaving in a reasonable approximation of the
Outlook editor: new messages are always Plain Text with no formatting.
Wrapping occurs properly.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Hi Brian,

Do you remember if you had to change anything to get it responding like that?

Thanks, Ashley.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

> Ashley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > I assume in Outlook 2007 I can't disable Word as the text editor like
> > you could in previous versions?
>
> Correct, but I've got it behaving in a reasonable approximation of the
> Outlook editor: new messages are always Plain Text with no formatting.
> Wrapping occurs properly.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
>

Ashley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Do you remember if you had to change anything to get it responding
> like that?

I had to set my default format to Plain Text and set the line wrap value.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

In Outlook 2007 how does one set the word wrap length in plain text (or indeed anything else about how incoming mail is displayed) I have to go to security settings to get it to do plain text. It wraps words wrong. Is there anything that can be done with this? I used Outlook 2003 for years and that did this just fine, but 2007 seems determined to drive me mad.