Yes, the setting you're after is under Tools Options Preferences Email
Options. Uncheck the box labelled Remove extra line breaks in plain text
messages.

-Peter

"Jay" - wrote in message ...
I sometimes get an email in Outlook 2003, with "This Message has Extra Line
breaks" at the top. If I
click on this to restore the line breaks, the formatting is generally much
better. It appears that
Outlook 2003 is trying to improve the formatting but makes a mess of it.
Is there a way to turn this
feature off so that I don't have to click to restore the line breaks?