How do Word Styles Affect Outlook e-mail text?

[Guest]

In Word 2003, my default paragraph style is Body Text. This is the same
paragraph style I would like to have as the default for new correspondence in
Outlook. I'm using Word as e-mail editor.

I have seen the recommendation that Word's default paragraph style should be
Normal for Outlook to work properly. But this seems contrary to the advice
generally given users of Word, which is to keep Normal pristine and make
modifications to derivative styles.

I also get the impression that Outlook contemplate adding formatting
manually, including inserting blank paragraphs. Am I looking for a closer
harmony between Word and Outlook than exists circe 2003?

 

[Tom Willett]

You'll get better results by asking in the Word and Outlook newsgroups.