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?

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
...
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.

--
HTH. Best wishes Harald
Excel MVP

Followup to newsgroup only please.

"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message
...
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?

Thanks Harald. You're right, I do use Outlook Express - I should have mentioned it. I've changed the setting to the max and we'll
see how this message comes out (typed without any line breaks).


"Harald Staff" wrote in message ...
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.

--
HTH. Best wishes Harald
Excel MVP

Followup to newsgroup only please.

"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message
...
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?

Just experimenting. Not sure which I prefer. I'm typing this one with line breaks and the
max setting so I hope it will format as I intendddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
ddddddddddddddddddd.


"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message ...
Thanks Harald. You're right, I do use Outlook Express - I should have mentioned it. I've changed the setting to the max and we'll
see how this message comes out (typed without any line breaks).


"Harald Staff" wrote in message ...
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.

--
HTH. Best wishes Harald
Excel MVP

Followup to newsgroup only please.

"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message
...
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?

Before you get yelled at, there is a microsoft.test newsgroup to make it easier
to, er, test.

One of the things I like about netscape messenger is that there is a little
notch at the top of the compose window at my line length. I can see when it's
going to wrap.

We're switching to Outlook (not OE) at work. It doesn't have that little
notch. My signature now includes a line like this:

----+----|----+----|----+----|----+----|----+----|----+----|----+----|----+----|

So I can see where it's going to wrap. (I like plain text for everything.)

If it's important to not let it break automatically, I'll add my own line
breaks.

Rob Rutherford wrote:

Just experimenting. Not sure which I prefer. I'm typing this one with line breaks and the
max setting so I hope it will format as I intendddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
ddddddddddddddddddd.

"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message ...
Thanks Harald. You're right, I do use Outlook Express - I should have mentioned it. I've changed the setting to the max and we'll
see how this message comes out (typed without any line breaks).


"Harald Staff" wrote in message ...
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.

--
HTH. Best wishes Harald
Excel MVP

Followup to newsgroup only please.

"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message
...
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?







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Dave Peterson