Copying text into Outlook Express message

[Guest]

Whenever I copy text from a Wordpad or Wordperfect document into an email
messge, OE puts too much space between paragraphs. It converts an HRt into a
double-sized HRt! But it's still only one HRt, so if I delete it, I have no
paragraph break at all! And if I key in additional text to such a mesage,
that too has a huge HRt. It's not feasible to key all my messages from
scratch. Any solution to this?

 

[FrankV]

Click format and see if it is set for Rich text or Plain Text. Change it to
the other and see if that helps.

Frank

 

[Guest]

That didn't help directly - I still couldn't control the size of the
paragraph breaks. But after a lot of trial and error, I got it to sort of
work like this:

First, I copied the text and pasted it into a email message formatted for
rich
text, HTML. (That in itself doesn't solve the problem.) Then, using the
Format menu, I converted it to plain text. At that point, the message lost
all formatting. Then I immediately converted it back to rich text, so I could
reformat it - put in the paragraph breaks, boldface, etc. This got rid of the
problem of the paragraph breaks being too deep. It's an okay solution for a
document that's not too long, and certainly better than rekeying the
document, but I would hope there's a better way!

Dottie B

 

[FrankV]

Did you try to use the "Insert" and then "File Attachment" while creating
the message?

Frank

 

[John Allen]

I use NoteTab to fix these sorts of issues - it is very clean & quick
http://www.notetab.com/

Paste your text into NoteTab

Fix with the following NoteTab functions:
Modify / Lines / Join
Modify / Lines / adjust line breaks
Modify / Text Case

Copy & paste into email

John

That didn't help directly - I still couldn't control the size of the
paragraph breaks. But after a lot of trial and error, I got it to
sort of work like this:

First, I copied the text and pasted it into a email message formatted
for rich
text, HTML. (That in itself doesn't solve the problem.) Then, using
the Format menu, I converted it to plain text. At that point, the
message lost all formatting. Then I immediately converted it back to
rich text, so I could reformat it - put in the paragraph breaks,
boldface, etc. This got rid of the problem of the paragraph breaks
being too deep. It's an okay solution for a document that's not too
long, and certainly better than rekeying the document, but I would
hope there's a better way!

Dottie B

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