I began to be annoyed by this in outlook 2000 and then used 2003 for some
years continuing to grumble quietly to myself while never having been able to
find the option.

Now in 2007 I have the same problem but now I get more messages from robots
which use line breaks for formatting and my problem just got more and more
annoying.

I can't believe I didn't see that checkbox in the hundreds of times I've
visited that dialog. Outlook 2007 has the same dialog as 2003, so simply
unchecking the box does the trick.

That explains why my searches found no results too - nobody else was stupid
enough to ask the question!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction (and for not making me feel
any more stupid than I already do).

Brian Lowe
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"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Brian __ Lowe wrote:

I can't find a switch to tell Outlook not to be so cavalier with
formatted text emails, and searching MSN and Google and here for
terms like "extra line breaks" provides no clues.

In Outlook 2003, click ToolsOptionsE-mail Options and uncheck "Remove
extra line breaks in plain text messages". If you have some other version
of Outlook, you'd be wide to state it when you ask a question.
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Brian Tillman