Switch off "Smart Paragraph Selection.

OL2007:
Tools - Options - Select the Mail Format tab -
Click the Editor Options... button - Advanced -
Deselect Use Smart Paragraph Selection.

Word 2007:
Click the Office Button - Word Options -
Advanced - Deselect Use Smart Paragraph Selection

May help...

Nikki

"MarkG" wrote in message
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"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
Are you hiding or showing extra line breaks? it should say in the info
bar of a message.

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Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention that I have it to always show
line breaks.

I've just composed a new email - comes up as plain text by default as I
changed the default option.

If I type some characters and press enter I get the extra line spacing.
However, If I hold down the shift key and press enter i don't get the line
spacing. Its what I'd expect when creating an HTML email etc by creating a
new paragraph by hiting enter. So its almost as if outlook is treating the
end of each line of text as a new paragraph.

One confused outlook user