Outlook Contacts Line Spacing Formatting question

[Octavio]

I have Outlook 2003 SP3

In my Contacts Outlook, Under General Tab, on the large window in the right
hand of the page, where you write the Notes and general information and
other things that you want about the contact, the paragraph lines sometime
come double and 1.5, when you copy the information from a website or from
another location (like an address or some other information that you might
want to keep there), and then paste the information on that window. You
can change the pasted fonts and the fonts sizes using the toolbar above, but
I don't see anything there and neither in the Customize Dialog Box that I
can use to change the spaces between the lines to "one".

It seems that this is not possible. Or it is?

Is this re-spacing possible in some way that I am not aware of? (I.E., Some
of the Word's formatting capabilities are missing here in Outlook, or these
might be hidden somewhere there?).

Is the new 2007 Outlook with a format toolbar or tools to do this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

In my Contacts Outlook, Under General Tab, on the large window in the
right hand of the page, where you write the Notes and general information
and other things that you want about the contact, the paragraph lines
sometime come double and 1.5, when you copy the information from a website
or from another location (like an address or some other information that
you might want to keep there), and then paste the information on that
window.

What happens when you use Shift-Enter instead of just Enter when advancing
to the next line in that pane?

 

[Octavio]

OK, that might be the answer, since then I get the correct spacing between
the lines.
Let me ask, how come that this procedure is so "secret" and there is not any
toolbar or any other hint in the program that make peeple who do not use the
program everyday aware of it?
Thanks.
PS What is that shift-enter really called? Was it intended for the lines
spacings?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

OK, that might be the answer, since then I get the correct spacing between
the lines. Let me ask, how come that this procedure is so "secret" and
there is not any toolbar or any other hint in the program that make peeple
who do not use the program everyday aware of it?

Secret? I knew it, so it can't be too secret. In Word, Shift-Enter is
documented (in Help) to be a line break. For example, in Word, look up
"Keyboard shortcuts" in Help an examine the section labeled "Insert special
characters".

PS What is that shift-enter really called? Was it intended for the lines
spacings?

It doesn't have any other name, that I'm aware. Yes, it was intended for
text formatting. Outlook's Help doesn't mention it because Outlook's help
doesn't deal with text formatting, only controlling Outlook.

 

[Octavio]

Thank you Brian.

I love the Outlook program, it is just that I don't use on a everyday basis,
and I lost some of the steps.

Let me ask, since I have 2003, do the new 2007 makes a lot of difference, or
it is worthy to get it? What is your personal opinion (or others, if any
one one also to answer) about it?

A second question: I need to put your steps in my "Notes and put it
accessible in my desktop (but again, right now I forgot how to do that).
Questions for Notes are also asked in this Newsgroup? Or there is another
separate Newsgroup for that?

Thanks again.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Let me ask, since I have 2003, do the new 2007 makes a lot of difference,
or it is worthy to get it? What is your personal opinion (or others, if
any one one also to answer) about it?

I have Office 2007, of course, and I like it, but the ribbon and the
rearrangement of where commands can be found took some time for acclimation.
On the whole, for the casual home user, I'd recommend staying with Outlook
2003. Of course, this is only my opinion and how I use Outlook likely
differs from how others use it. I know some people to find its extra
features (which you can find on the Office web site) invaluable.

A second question: I need to put your steps in my "Notes and put it
accessible in my desktop (but again, right now I forgot how to do that).
Questions for Notes are also asked in this Newsgroup? Or there is another
separate Newsgroup for that?

There is no specific newsgroup just for the Notes items in Outlook, so ask
in microsoft.public.outlook.general.