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Old January 26th 09, 11:32 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Colin Youngs Colin Youngs is offline
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Default Apology for duplicate posts


"jbm" schreef in bericht
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: 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.

Thanks for your advice. I'll try that tomorow when I have more time.

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

The duplicate posts were caused by myself as I made several (unsuccessful)
attempts) to solve the problem.

Colin Youngs
Brussels