Persistent paragraph spacing settings

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Dave Weeden

Hi all,

Everytime I reply to an email with a signature, it adds an extra line
between paragraphs. This looks terrible for multi-line entities such as
mailing addresses.

I use Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as my email editor and the instructions
from the following link do fix my problem.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011391891033.aspx

Problem is, I have to perform this process for EVERY email I reply to (if it
has a signature that triggers this nefarious effect).

It keeps setting my "before" and "after" paragraph settings back to Auto
(when they need to be at 0 pt).

Can someone tell me how to make this change once and be done with it????

Thanks,

Dave

PS

I also tried editing Email.dot to no avail.
 
If it's an HTML e-mail that's causing it try pressing SHIFT+ENTER instead of
just ENTER at the end of a line, this normally inserts the <br> tag in an
HTML document and only moves down one line, not two.

Andrea Jones
www.allaboutoffice.co.uk
 
Andrea, thanks for the suggestion.

That does in fact work with html format emails (which I gather is the format
used when signatures or backgrounds are included).

It has the same net effect as setting the paragraph "before" and "after"
spacing values to "0 pt" (from their default values of "Auto") on a per
response basis.

I guess what I'm looking for could also be expressed as: "what global
setting will result in <br> tags being used instead of <p> tags for carriage
returns when editing responses to html emails?"

Anyone?
 
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