Thanks guys, that answers my question.

When I said 'line-by-line', I meant a collection of strings delimited
by control characters (like newline or null). Some environments will
see entities similar to Body as a set of individual lines, and others
treat it like a single string a chars.

Evidently then, a mail message body in outlook is treated vb as one
long string rather than lots of shorter ones.

I'm rather new to VB, so I'm still getting the hang of it.

Thanks again,
-T