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What's with all the blank lines in emails recieved from Outlook users?
superboyac:
How come whenever I recieve email from people who use Outlook, there are so many blank lines? It's pretty annoying. It's not even just double-spaced, sometimes there are 3 or 4 lines between actual lines of text like this:
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Hi,
When are we going to
the movie tomorrow?
Thanks,
Jim
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What the heck is wrong with that program?
mouser:
could it be that they are writing it in html style,etc. and you are viewing it in plaintext mode which is adding the spaces? ive seen this before - annoying; maybe there is an option to remove double blank lines..
superboyac:
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's it. But why does it do that? It's one of the most annoying things about using email. I'm a plain text guy when it comes to email, I don't have a lot of patience for all the formatting and stuff, I mean, all we're doing is talking to each other, it's not a freakin presentation. But to each his own...still, that Outlook spacing is ridiculous, especially when you hit reply and you get that > symbol on a ton of blank lines. Sometimes I find myself manually going through and deleting the blank lines in my reply, then I ask myself "why am I even bothering to do this", then I get mad at myself for being so anal, then I get mad at Outlook for making me like this, then I get just cranky at software in general.
Take a chill pill...yes, I know.
equinexus:
This happens because when you are composing email in Outlook and the format is HTML, every time you hit enter, it adds a paragraph break; i.e. it adds a </P> and starts the next line with a <P>. If you then view the resulting message in Outlook, it looks fine, but when viewed in Gmail, Yahoo!, etc., etc. those </P> tags are converted to extra line breaks.
The only solution is for the person composing the message in Outlook to hit Ctrl+Enter instead of just Enter; Outlook then inserts a standard line break (<BR> tag) instead of a </P>.
The other solution is for Microsoft to FIX THIS... that will probably be a long wait.
superboyac:
This happens because when you are composing email in Outlook and the format is HTML, every time you hit enter, it adds a paragraph break; i.e. it adds a </P> and starts the next line with a <P>. If you then view the resulting message in Outlook, it looks fine, but when viewed in Gmail, Yahoo!, etc., etc. those </P> tags are converted to extra line breaks.
The only solution is for the person composing the message in Outlook to hit Ctrl+Enter instead of just Enter; Outlook then inserts a standard line break (<BR> tag) instead of a </P>.
The other solution is for Microsoft to FIX THIS... that will probably be a long wait.
-equinexus (May 15, 2009, 10:07 PM)
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seriously, it's so annoying. Now that most email programs can handle html, it's not as bad. But people need to relax with the fancy formatting in email.
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