unwanted spaces when forwarding emails

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payson

Hello,

When I edit text in a forwarded email and sent it along, MS Outlook
adds a phantom space before and after words, which I never typed. For
example, if I tried to change $127.50 to $128.50, Outlook would show
$12 8 .50.

I use hypertext Ariel 10 point and the font is the same for both the
forwarded messages and the original. Do you have any suggestions?
 
Hello,

When I edit text in a forwarded email and sent it along, MS Outlook
adds a phantom space before and after words, which I never typed. For
example, if I tried to change $127.50 to $128.50, Outlook would show
$12 8 .50.

I use hypertext Ariel 10 point and the font is the same for both the
forwarded messages and the original. Do you have any suggestions?
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You aren't forwarding e-mail if you are editing it. You are creating a
whole NEW e-mail message and lying that what you are forwarding was the
original message. If you were indeed *forwarding* the original message,
the recipient that gets your message actually gets the ORIGINAL message,
not your altered version. You aren't forwarding anything. You are
plagarizing someone else's content.

Does the phantom space only occur when, ahem, "forwarding" the *edited*
version of the original message? Are you editing a plain-text message
or an HTML formatted message? If HTML, could be you are inserting
characters within the HTML coding of the message, so you'll need to send
the recipient a plain-text version or edit the HTML code of the message
(Outlook isn't the greatest HTML editor) to misrepresent to the
recipient what was the original quoted price.
 
Thanks for your helpful reply.

I am "plagiarizing" my own content. I am in the service business and
get numerous queries each day on repetitive content. It saves time for
me to dig out a previous email from my sent folder and edit it
appropriately instead of retyping the same information from scratch.
Because I add a formatted signature line, I cannot use Plan Text.
Using Rich Text, gets rid of the problem but sometimes recipients (with
older browsers, I presume) can't pull up .pdf attachments if I send
replies to them in Rich Text. Any other suggestions?

I appreciate your ideas.
 
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