Don't use rich text - use either HTML or plain text. Rich text can only be
used by other outlook users and usually gets converted to html when you send
it.

When you view the source code for a web page, you'll notice paragraphs are
marked by the p tag and line breaks by the br tag. The p tag adds
more white space between paragraphs, br doesn't. It's the same with
email. some clients use br tags instead of p for paragraph breaks while
outlook uses p unless you use shift+enter.

AFAIK, Microsoft is not planning on fixing it since nothing is broken - they
are sending proper HTML. Yes, it happens to everyone, but since the problem
is only with webmail users (like gmail or yahoo) it's not a big deal as long
as the message is readable.

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"Grandmasterfuzz" wrote in
message ...
Thanks for responding to my inquiry Diane. But I'm afriad I don't
understand
what you're trying to tell me. I'm not using HTML, just Rich Text. And
what
do you mean by p and br tag ?

Since I don't know what program the person I am sending an email to, I
can't
very well determine for each email whether I should be putting one or two
enters at the end of each paragraph. So I don't think that works as a
solution.

Does this happen to everyone who uses outlook 2007? Is Microsoft planning
to
fix this?

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

"Enter" in HTML = p with is 'double spacing' in rendered in HTML.
There
isn't an extra space, its just how html rendered the paragraph you'll
need
to use shift+enter if you want to use the br tag. Or just use 1 Enter,
not
2 (most people use two for the extra white space in their client).

This should not a problem with plain text - unless the client (i.e.,
yahoo
or the webmail client) converts the line breaks to the p tag, not the
br
tag.

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"Grandmasterfuzz" wrote in
message ...
I have outlook 2007.

When I type an email in plain text it looks fine, but sometimes when
received by others extra linebreaks have been added after each "enter".
This
does not happen with all recipients, just some.

For instance, I manager a yahoo group. When I compose an email to the
group
it looks fine, but when I receive the email it is double spaced. I
spoke
with
yahoo about this and they told me it is a Microsoft problem. Is there
something I can do to have emails arrive looking the same way that I
composed
them?

I read somewhere that if I shift+enter instead of enter that will solve
the
problem. It seems ridiculous that users should all have to do this
every
time. Is there an easier way to correct this problem permanently?