Outlook 2007 HTML replying

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I'm experiencing problems when replying to certain HTML formatted e-mails. On
some e-mail messages I have received, when replying, pressing Enter appears
to add an HTML paragraph break rather than the usual single line break. I
believe that these problematic e-mail messages are sent from Outlook 2003.
This causes double spacing in the e-mail message. While it is possible to use
Shift+Enter to add a normal line break, this behavior seems rather strange
and it has thus far been impossible to determine which e-mail messages would
require Shift+Enter other than the initial reply message whitespace being
twice the usual size. This was not the case when replying with Outlook 2003.
I have deleted NormalEmail.dotm to be sure that there was not some strange
formatting assigned, but this has not resolved the issue.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
I'll add some more information to this. I've enabled "show all formatting
marks".

Most replies to HTML messages show:

¶
¶
¶

etc.

What is occurring, on some HTML replies is:

¶

¶

¶
 
Most likely, the paragraph in question has some formatting style features associated with it that produce a larger space between paragraphs. You should be able to adjust the spacing using the Paragraph group commands on the Format Text tab.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thank you for the response. The problem is, I'm simply replying to an HTML
formatted message and pressing enter produces double spacing. I have not
changed the formatting in any way. Sure, I can modify the paragraph spacing,
but that seems rather counterintuitive when just replying to a simple e-mail.
When replying, pressing Enter should be a single spaced paragraph break, not
double. This does not occur on all HTML e-mails received, just some, which
makes it all the more frustrating.

Is there any way to avoid this from occurring? If necessary I can provide an
example e-mail that causes this issue.
 
The fact that it occurs on just some is what makes me think that the formatting is being carried over from the incoming message,

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
YOu can strip all formatting by switching the message format to plain text and then back to HTML.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Cmon...there must be some way to automatically do this! I am facing the
same problem
 
Can you post the HTML message source from the incoming message, maybe not all but enough to try to dupliicate the problem?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
It would be easier to send a copy of an example message that causes the
issue, since the HTML output is rather... large, at least saving it from
Outlook 2007 to a files is 466 lines long... gotta love CSS.

Shoot me an e-mail to mark{NOSPAM} {at} chasingsol.com and I'll forward a
copy.
 
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