Outlook 2003 - line spacing problem.

[Jacinda Romy]

Hi any help would be greatly appreciated.

I use Outlook 2003 and I write my email using word as my email editor
and HTML. When I send out what looks to me like a perfectly formatted
email, other people, including hotmail users see very large spaces
between my lines. Basically, whenever I hit the enter twice to start
a new paragraph, it looks to others like I've skipped 4 or 5 lines.
Is there anything I can do (short of using plain text) to fix this
problem?

Thanks so much for your help.

Jacinda

 

[Guest]

Hi, Jacinda Romy;

This worked for me:

In a new message:
Format> Paragraph> Indents and Spacing: Spacing: After: 6 pts.
This shows a space between paragraphs when composing, no need to press enter
twice. It doesn't seem to affect spacing in the received e-mail, which gets a
space (looks like one line) between paragraphs anyway. (You could look into
saving this as a Style, and perhaps as a Template for new messages, which is
beyond anything I have done, as Plain Text works for me.) My signature showed
up double spaced. To fix that, I deleted the hard breaks and replaced with
shift+enter for each line of my sig.

Regards;
IanRoy

 

[Jacinda Romy]

Hi, Jacinda Romy;

This worked for me:

In a new message:
Format> Paragraph> Indents and Spacing: Spacing: After: 6 pts.
This shows a space between paragraphs when composing, no need to press enter
twice. It doesn't seem to affect spacing in the received e-mail, which gets a
space (looks like one line) between paragraphs anyway. (You could look into
saving this as a Style, and perhaps as a Template for new messages, which is
beyond anything I have done, as Plain Text works for me.) My signature showed
up double spaced. To fix that, I deleted the hard breaks and replaced with
shift+enter for each line of my sig.

Regards;
IanRoy

Thank you so much, Ian. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks again,
JR

 

[Guest]

Hi, Jacinda Romy;
You are most welcome. I'm glad it worked for you.
Regards,
Ian.

 

[Guest]

I think the problem is with using the html setting. I have had this problem
using rich text and html also. I set it to "Plain" text and it seems to have
resolved itself.

 

[Guest]

You are correct. This problem does not exist with plain text e-mail. But some
people like to format some messages, so need to be aware that with
Outlook/Word, what you see is not quite what your recipient will get.