HELP w/ line spacing when composing new Outlook 2003 msg

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I use Outlook 2003 for e-mail and Word 2003 as the mail editor.
Whenever I try to compose a new message the "Before" and "After
paragraph spacing is set to Auto. I have to set it to 0 pt and the
compose the message. However, when I use Word 2003 for any othe
purpose (i.e. outside of Outlook) the paragraph spacing is set to
pt. I tried renaming the Normal.dot file but that didn't help.
tried fixing the paragraph space to set it to 0 pt and then trie
saving the file as the newmail.dot but again that didn't help.
found a "mail.ost" file but have no idea how to change that (assumin
it is related to my issue)

Would really appreciate any help. Thanks much

 

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Anybody at all out there have any idea what's causing this? I reall
need some help getting this resolved - it's really a pain to dea
with it every time I create a new message

Thanks

 

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Puhleeze!! Somebody has got to know the answer!! Where are th
Microsoft MVP's with this problem? I see their answers to othe
issues so why not mine

Don't mean to offend but I'm really getting frustrated

Thanks

 

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Hi:
I was having problems with this too.

Try these 2 options:

1) In Outllook 2003:
Go to Tools > Options > Mail Format (Tab) > Message format section
Deselect "Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages"
(Make sure that both of the check-boxes in this section are unchecked)

2) In Outlook 2003:
Go to Tools > Options > Mail Format (Tab) > Message format section
Select "Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages"

Close Outlook.
Open MS Word
Go to Format > Paragraph > Indents and Spacing tab > Spacing section.
Set Before and After spacings BOTH to 0, and select Line Spacing to Single

Then go to Tools > Options > Edit tab >Click and Type section
Set Default Paragraph style to Normal

Let me know if it works for you...

DaleB
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