badgolferman said:
Outlook 2007 Professional
When I hit the Enter key in a Compose window it inserts two lines
instead of just going to the next line. This did not used to happen in
the past but I cannot figure out what setting has changed.
That's because you are stuck in OL2007 with using Word 2007 as your
e-mail editor. Even if you install a standalone copy of OL2007, a stub
of Word 2007 gets installed to force you to use it to compose e-mails.
If you were familiar with Word then you know that it inserts additional
spacing between paragraphs. Hitting the Enter key inserts a paragraph
marker (i.e., the end-of-paragraph delimiter). That is part of the
style you are using when writing a document in Word.
You could modify the style in Word to reduce the inter-paragraph spacing
(ask in a Word newsgroup how to configure Word). You could hit the
Shift+Enter key combo that inserts a line break (newline, looks like a
left-pointing formatting character) instead of a paragraph marker. You
could choose to write your e-mails in plain text since it is likely that
your e-mails really do not require rich-text formatting.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/concepts/rules_enterparagraphs.html
Turn on the display of formatting characters to see the backwards "P"
(Pilcrow) and left arrow characters showing the paragraph marker and
line break.
Pilcrow:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Pilcrow.png
Since you're forced to use Word 2007 as your e-mail editor, you should
learn more on how to use Word to compose documents.
I am using Rich Text formatting.
NEVER use RTF (Rich-Text Formatting) for emails. RTF actually
encompasses Microsoft's proprietary TNEF () and HTML formats; however,
Microsoft uses RTF to commonly refer to their proprietary TNEF. The
only e-mail client that understands Microsoft's RTF/TNEF format is
Microsoft's Outlook client. Not even their Outlook Express client can
understand RTF/TNEF. Unless you can guarantee that both sender and
recipient are using Outlook (and both are also using the same Exchange
server to prevent corruption of content), you won't know what e-mail
client the recipient is using. If the recipient isn't using Outlook,
they cannot make use of the winmail.dat attachment in the e-mail that
defines the formatting for the document (unless they install 3rd party
software, like Winmail Opener). Instead use plain-text or HTML format
for sending e-mails. In fact, if you are in a corporate environment
where they demand you use RTF/TNEF for *internal* only e-mails, there is
a user-configurable option in Outlook to convert the RTF e-mail into
HTML when sending to outside recipients (i.e., to Internet recipients).
Never use Outlook's RTF for e-mails unless you are forced to and are
within a corporate environment where they demand RTF for internal
e-mails. Use plain-text or HTML for your Internet e-mails.
