that controls whether the para mark is selected when you select a paragraph.
this keeps you from losing paragraph formatting and from leaving empty paras
hanging around.

The (kooky) line spacing default in word shows more white space using
styles, but it doesn't work with plain text. (It gets turned off immediately
just about everywhere I think. )

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"Nikki Peterson" wrote in message
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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