Double Spacing in Outlook 2003 [MS Word as Editor]

[MR Hardman]

I'm using Outlook 2003, with MS Word as my email Editor. All new emails that
I create are automatically defaulting to double spacing. When I go:

Format/paragraph/indents and spacing the options there are telling me that
its 0pt before and after and its on single spacing - but it obviously not!
I've tried switching it to plain text and the problem remains. Its not a
spacing between paragraphs issue as it appears without hitting return,
although I did try shift+enter but it still comes back with double spacing.

If I switch it back to not using Word as my email editor the problem
disappears, but when I open word its not having this problem within there -
only from Outlook.

I don't use any signitures, and neither am I using any stationary. The email
opens with the Style on normal - same as Word application itself.

I'm pretty good with word, and what I can't solve myself I can usually find
on the net somewhere, but this has me scratching my head...and it hurts. I've
seen a fair few posts but no one seems to be able to solve it.

 

[MR Hardman]

Just to update the thread, I have resolved this issue - after opening a new
email window I went to File>Page Setup and clicked on Default - restoring all
default settings. Although when I went back in to check what changed I could
not see anything, it did fix the issue completely.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Note that while "Default" may work this way in Outlook, you should not
expect it to be the same in Word. In Word, if you click Default... in a
dialog (including Page Setup), you are saving the current settings as the
defaults, not restoring the factory default settings.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org