Strange negative indent in plain text messages

[Wolfgang Schaper]

Recently my Outlook 2007 installation decided to indent the first line
of any plain text message about half an inch to the left, resulting in
the first 2 letters not being displayed as they happen to be outside the
display area. That applies to editing mails as well as displaying mails
in a separate window and in reading pane. Up to now I wasn't able to
figure out how to reset that indent configuration. Any ideas? Thanks in
advance for your help.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

sounds like a style is messed up. if the 'outdent' can't be changed using
the Decrease indent button (next to the alignment buttons) yo'll need to
find and delete the email template.










"Wolfgang Schaper"

 

[Wolfgang Schaper]

sounds like a style is messed up. if the 'outdent' can't be changed
using the Decrease indent button (next to the alignment buttons)

It's not working, as all formatting options are disabled with plain text.

yo'll need to find and delete the email template.

I already deleted all files in "C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook" and "C:\Documents and
Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook"
(I am on Win XP), but that didn't change that behavior. I suspect it's
any settings in the registry, but I don't know which ones.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Wolfgang Schaper

I already deleted all files in "C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook" and "C:\Documents and
Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook" (I am on Win XP),

Not a good idea if you're using a PST, since the second of those folders is
the default location of your PST, which holds all your Outlook data. Delete
it and you delete all your contacts, email, tasks, calendar, and the rest.
Templates aren't kept in either anyway. I believe they're in
%AppData%\Microsoft\Templates on XP.

 

[Wolfgang Schaper]

Wolfgang Schaper


Not a good idea if you're using a PST, since the second of those folders
is the default location of your PST, which holds all your Outlook data.
Delete it and you delete all your contacts, email, tasks, calendar, and
the rest. Templates aren't kept in either anyway. I believe they're in
%AppData%\Microsoft\Templates on XP.

Of course I restored the files after I figured out that it won't help to
solve the issue. Anyway, the connections to the PST files get lost,
the PST files are still available and ready to relink.

Deleting (i.e. moving to a temporary folder and moving back later) of
all files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Templates didn't help either.

Kind regards,
Wolfgang

 

[Internet]

Recently my Outlook 2007 installation decided to indent the first line
of any plain text message about half an inch to the left, resulting in
the first 2 letters not being displayed as they happen to be outside the
display area. That applies to editing mails as well as displaying mails
in a separate window and in reading pane. Up to now I wasn't able to
figure out how to reset that indent configuration. Any ideas? Thanks in
advance for your help.

I just solved the issue by deleting the registry node
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office
and anything contained, and afterwards reinstalling Office 2007.