"smhish" wrote in message
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"Vanguard" wrote:

"smhish" wrote ...

When I forward a message but need to edit the text in the body of
the
message
(the message in the forwarded email) OL automatically places an
extra
space
before the inserted text. I tried putting it right next to the
previous
word, but then I have an extra trailing space.

I am using OL 2003. Messages are composed in HTML .

Any ideas of why this is happening and how to fix it?

Using Word as the e-mail editor?

Tried using Shift+Enter to create a new line?

An extra return is not the problem, it is inserting text between words.
If for instance I have a sentence "little wagon" and I want to insert
"red". What I get is "little(space)(space)red(space)wagon" If I place
the cursor right after the "e" in little I get
little(space)red(space)(space)wagon"

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I still only have OL2002 (no bang for the buck to waste going to OL2003
or OL2007). I also do not use Word as the e-mail editor. When using
the embedded new-mail editor in OL2002, I don't have the problem you
describe.

Are you using the embedded new-mail editor in OL2003 or are you using
Word? If Word, the folks in the Word newsgroup might know what's going
on with that weird formatting. If you're using the embedded new-mail
editor in OL2003, guess you'll have to wait until someone to chime who
uses that version.

I'd probably also look at the HTML code. Could be when you are
inserting that where YOU see the insert point is not where it gets
inserted in the code. Maybe an " " code was used and the WYSIWYG
insert point was before it so you end up pushing it out when you
position right after the "e" in "little" or when you position right
before the "w" in "wagon" so you are inserting after the " "
character. Outlook is not the greatest HTML editor; however, in other
HTML editors, often you actually have to be in HTML code mode (and not
in WYSIWYG mode) to get the result you want. Sometimes you just cannot
edit properly in WYSIWYG mode. I don't recall ever seeing an HTML view
mode in Outlook's embedded new-mail editor.