I've tried yours and Ron's suggestions. My text was 4 characters, space, 4
characters, space, etc, etc. I get approx 130 characters & spaces across the
viewable page both ways before I send it and after it comes back.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

I use MIME/None for Plain. Text and Quoted Printable for HTML. If you just
hold down a key and never use a space, when you get it, (using my settings),
it will be wrapped when reading in Plain Text, and off the screen when
reading in HTML. Does this shed any light?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Hank" wrote in message
...
Ron,
I didn't know about this setting and a search for keyword "margins" in the
OE6 Help section didn't find anything about margins. I changed Encode
text
to none and set it to 70 characters, clicked Apply & OK. I sent myself an
email. It showed about 130 characters across the width of the page when I
typed it. When it came to me, it still showed 130 - way more than 70
characters wide.

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

Tools, Options, Send, HTML and Plain text settings,
Change the Encode text using to None.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Hank" wrote in message
...
: Outgoing email is only in the Outbox until it gets sent. I looked in
the
: Drafts and Sent folders and my email text goes full page width except
where I
: was forwarding someone else's email that was just 4-5 inches wide.
:
: "Ron Sommer" wrote:
:
: Your outgoing emails don't get formatted until you send to Drafts or
the
: Outbox.
: How do your emails in those folders?
: --
: Ronald Sommer
:
: "Hank" wrote in message
: ...
: :I receive some emails with text in nice 4-5 inch wide lines. Other
emails
: : come with text wide as the page. My outgoing emails are wide as
the
page.
: : How do you set margins in OE6? I have Windows XP SP2, and IE7.
:
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