Extra blank lines in my outgoing Outlook messages

[Guest]

I am running Windows XP Pro and Outlook 2002 with Word as my editor. I
always compose my messages in Word and paste them into Outlook. This has
always worked until recently. Now when I paste my messages into new Outlook
messages they appear to be properly formatted; however, my receipients say
that the messages contain many blank lines in some paragraphs. I have tried
changing every setting that I think might be affecting this without result.

 

[Guest]

make sure the message format is Rich Text, not HTML