| : "Colin Youngs" wrote in message
| : ...
|
| Each evening I type my daily summary posts concerning Brussels and the UK
| into a Word document. I keep the standard headings and links permanently
| in the Word document and fill in the appropriate comments and figures for
| the day in question.
|
| I copy and paste the text en bloc into an e-mail message box and post the
| message to the News Group. If I do this via News.Individual.Net using
| Outlook Express, the message - although it looks right when I send it -
| somehow gets reformatted and appears in the News Group with the lines
spaced
| much too far apart.
|
| Some formatting option in my Word document must be set wrongly but I
cannot
| trace what it is. Posts which I type directly into Outlook Express -
like
| this one - appear normal.
|
| I am no particular fan of Google Groups but if I copy my text into a
Google
| message box and post it that way, the formatting stays as it should be.
| That is why I send my Brussels and UK summaries via Google.
|
| I still have Windows XP, not Vista, so that is not the cause of the
problem.
|
| Colin Youngs
| Brussels
|
|
It's not Word that causes the problem, it's Outlook Express. I've often
wondered how it sorts out it's line and CR spacing, but I've never found an
answer.

Just as an exercise, select any post from this group in OE, and then copy
and paste the whole message into Word. Then select the option to show all
the formatting marks from the Tools Options View menu. Now try to work
out where all the hidden Carriage Returns came from!!! That's why you get
posts double spaced using a paste option into Outlook Express. I didn't type
them, you didn't type them, so who did? And it also explains why some posts
that include the original message seem to be completely messed up regarding
line lengths. Another original bug from the Bill Gates comic show.

As to your duplicate posts, I've now no idea. Sorry.

Oops, sorry Colin, hit the wrong reply button earlier. Blame Gates
again.

jbm
Northampton