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Format problems with Mail

by wstallings Feb 23, 2011 7:52AM PST

I am using Mail 4.4 on OS X 10.6.6. When I compose a message, whether I type it directly into an outgoing Mail message or cut and paste from Word, Mail puts a considerable amount of space between paragraphs. It looks like a double carriagereturn/linefeed but it is only a single carriagereturn/linefeed. How can I tighten this up to look like normal paragraph spacing?

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Format problems with Mail

by centurion48 Feb 25, 2011 9:16AM PST

Does the problem occur in both plain text and rich text formats?

regards,
centurion48

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ALso with RFT

by wstallings Feb 25, 2011 2:01PM PST

Yes, the same problem with plaintext and RTF.

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Mail formatting

by centurion48 Feb 26, 2011 1:52PM PST

Is there any possibility you have changed the standard fonts in Mail preferences?

Note: Cutting and pasting from Word will often cause unexpected consequences so you need to be testing this with a bog-standard Mail new message screen. Extra spacing in Word is usually caused by the leading, which is set in Format->Paragraph - space before or space after.

regards,
centurion48

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