[upmcrat]

Hey all, I'm in support and send a ton of regular emails as canned messages that I have saved in a folder. I simply find the message that I want, click forward, edit the names and personalize, and send.

When I edit the text, it inserts a space before and after everything I type and it's really annoying. I have searched and searched for a way to disable the automatic insert of these spaces, but have yet to find an answer.

My question is (obviously), is there a way to disable automatically inserting a space before and after the text that I insert into a forwarded message? Either by some setting within Outlook 2003, or some reg hack?

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do you mean...like it put's extra lines under your block of text...such as a new paragraph...or if you typed "hey bob this is for you" into a block of text that was already there...there would be extra spaces on the same line

[dsenette]

do you mean...like it put's extra lines under your block of text...such as a new paragraph...or if you typed "hey bob this is for you" into a block of text that was already there...there would be extra spaces on the same line

[upmcrat]

if I had a message that says:
"here are instructions for installing this software"
and I forward it and edit it to specify the software, it would look like this:
"here are instructions for installing    FYI   software"
note the extra spaces before and after"FYI".

Edited by upmcrat, 04 January 2006 - 09:49 AM.

[dsenette]

i don't actually see any extra spaces...probaly my fault

this may be helfpul...since you're basically sending out form letters

http://office.micros...0865001033.aspx

it's how to make an email template...that way you're kind of assured of having the exact same format for each mail

[upmcrat]

Hmmm...tried that and it's going to be way more trouble than it's worth.
If I could just find this little thing and get rid of it, then I would be golden.

Have you tried what I was talking about in O2K3?

[dsenette]

yeah...but i can't recreate your problem

[upmcrat]

hmmm...maybe i should reinstall or restore defaults

[dsenette]

you could just do a repair of office..just open up outlook..then do help > detect and repair