Enter gives two lines of space

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When I am creating an email in Outlook 2003, when I press the enter
key, I get two lines of space rather than one. What can solve this?
 
1. Don't press Enter, allow Outlook to word wrap.
2. Use shift+enter if you must.

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After furious head scratching, contrain asked:

| When I am creating an email in Outlook 2003, when I press the enter
| key, I get two lines of space rather than one. What can solve this?
 
contrain said:
When I am creating an email in Outlook 2003, when I press the enter
key, I get two lines of space rather than one. What can solve this?
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I bet you are using Word as your editor but never told us that important
fact. The extra space between the paragraphs is not an extra line. It
is the paragraph spacing specified in your configuration of Word. You
can change the spacing if you want but then the 1-line paragraph spacing
will also change in other documents that you write using Word. If you
don't use Word, the problem goes away.

If you are using Word for e-mail composing, you need to ask in a Word
group as the extra wide 1-line paragaph spacing is a Word issue, not an
Outlook issue.
 
Even if you don't use Word as your email editor this "double" line spacing
will still happen using HTML format; and using Shift+Enter will prevent the
"double" line spacing.
 
Alan Smithee Jr. said:
Even if you don't use Word as your email editor this "double" line
spacing will still happen using HTML format; and using Shift+Enter
will prevent the "double" line spacing.
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You may be correct regarding HTML depending on your Outlook
configuration, probably because Outlook inserts a <P> paragraph tag
instead of a <BR> line break tag (which Shift+Enter will do). Outlook
doesn't let you switch between rendered view and raw data modes to allow
you to edit the HTML tags. However, I sent HTML-formatted test e-mails
using the embedded e-mail editor in Outlook 2002 and there is no extra
whitespace between paragraphs.

I rarely use HTML because it is rarely required for the formatting of
the message. It ends up doubling the size of the message: one part for
a plain-text MIME section another MIME section for the HTML part. So
you end up with duplicate content in your message that couldn've simply
be sent in plain-text format. Anything requiring significant formatting
or structure is usually written in Word (or whatever application) and I
attach that file to the message. The HTML editor in Outlook is
simplistic (i.e., it sucks). You might want to compose in a better HTML
editor and then copy it into Outlook or use the send e-mail function in
the better HTML editor.
 
Thanks for the information.
you to edit the HTML tags. However, I sent HTML-formatted test e-mails
using the embedded e-mail editor in Outlook 2002 and there is no extra
whitespace between paragraphs.
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As I just did as well and DID receive the extra whitespace between
paragraphs in the HTML formated test.

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