Ric
Fri May 09 07:25:57 PDT 2008
On May 9, 10:23 am, Ric <Lawson...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having the same annoying problem, mostly with replies and
> forwards in outlook 07. Anyone else annoyed by this or does everyone
> just like space? Anyone found a solution?
>
> Why won't microsoft stop trying to think for us? They're just messing
> it all up.
Okay, I was hoping to add to the thread, but that did not work. Here
is the original post with more info so my response doesn't sound so
cryptic.
--original post--
I've recently gone from Office 2003 to Office 2007.
When I compose a new email message in Outlook 2007, or create a new
Word
document, it adds a line between paragraphs automatically. I don't
want it to
do this. It's a problem on many levels:
1. Copying-and-pasting what seem to be paragraphs that have a space
line in
between them become paragraphs without a space line between them when
pasting
them into plain-text formatted locations (such as this post!). (I'm
guessing
this means that if someone receives my HTML email and opens it in
something
that wants to use a plain text viewer without HTML, they'll get a lot
of
extra lines between paragraphs in emails I sent them -- NOT the
professional
image I'm after. But even if that isn't the case, I still need to be
able to
copy-and-paste consistently.)
2. When I do a "reply" to an email message, it doesn't do this. Thus,
if I
get used to no longer typing two paragraph marks, well... I don't get
to get
used to anything!
This is extremely annoying.
The format is HTML by default, and Word is the default HTML email
editor.
I've looked at Help files and all the Options and web articles I could
find
for Outlook and Word, and it seems there's no way to permanently set
it to
stop doing this. The only choice I see is the checkbox in Paragraph
formatting for "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style"
but
that only works for each message (or document) and you have to go in
and
select it every time.
This About.com article says there's no way to make it a permanent
change
without modifying the Normal.dot template, but it doesn't say how to
do that:
http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/microsoftword2007/qt/extraspace200...
This MS KB article may offer a fix if I can read between the lines and
extrapolate the concept into 2007, but it says it Applies To 2003 and
it's
not really addressing this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/284968
Maybe I can overcome this problem by creating a New style and making
it the
default, but can I get the checkbox to stick? And, if so, how do I go
about
doing that?
What do I do?
Thanks.
Jay