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A frequent question in Outlook forums asks how to fix Outlook so that messages aren't double spaced for
the recipient. This effect is caused by the HTML coding and is most
frequent for recipients using a web-based email client, such as Hotmail,
Yahoo, and GMail. This is because of the way Outlook creates line breaks in
HTML and how browsers or other clients interpret them. In some cases, the
message is correctly spaced when received and only double spaced when
replied to. |
Cause
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When you press Enter while creating HTML email, Outlook inserts a
paragraph tag (<p>), so two Enters (for white space between the
paragraphs) inserts two <p> tags, which is double spaced when
rendered in a browser. If you use Shift+Enter twice, which creates
the line break tag (<br>), the message will not look double spaced
in a browser. |
Solution
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You have 4 options:
- Use plain text for messages. Plain text will render correctly in any
and every email client available.
- Press Enter once, not twice, when composing HTML formatted email.
- Press Shift+Enter twice at the end of a paragraph, rather than pressing
Enter twice.
- Just ignore it as an inconstancy in the way
various applications handle HTML.
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Updated
Apr 09 2008
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