2007 - Plain Text Wrap

[Ashley]

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]

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

 

[Brian Tillman]

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.

 

[Ashley]

Hi Brian,

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

Thanks, Ashley.

 

[Brian Tillman]

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.

 

[Jerry Pournelle]

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.