Thanks Harald, I'll try changing it. You're right, I do use Outlook
Express - I should have mentioned it.

"Harald Staff" wrote in message
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Hi Rob

In Outlook Express (which I belive you use), menu Tools Options Send
News Plain
text format (whew), there's a setting "Automatically wrap text at XX
characters when
sending". There's no "Off mode" to that one as far as I can find. Hope I'm
wrong. Some of
us set XX to be quite high or max so that posted VBA code won't get
unwanted line breaks
and will copy-paste errorless into modules. But it makes all other writing
ugly as a side
effect.

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HTH. Best wishes Harald
Excel MVP

Followup to newsgroup only please.

"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message
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Sorry, nothing to do with XL but it seemed as good a place as any to
ask.
Why do posts get reformatted such that text typed without line breaks
seems
to have arbitrary line breaks inserted? Am I doing something wrong and
is
there a way of preventing it?