DaveMeyer

Hi,

I'm having what appears to be a rather unusual problem. I'm using XP with Outlook 2003 and Word 2003 as my default Outlook editor.

In the last 2 weeks I've started getting complaints from readers that may emails are "formatted funny". As it turns out, somehow spaces are being added and subtracted in mail as it is being sent out. In other words, everything looks fine on my screen and in my sent file, but when users receive the mails they are hard to read because of the spaces being added and subtracted. The first complaint came from a couple of Yahoo readers, so I thought it was a Yahoo problem. Now, the complaints are coming in from a variety of sources.

When I use the default Outlook editor, the problem goes away. But I prefer the flexibility of Word.

Here is an example of some text that was forwarded back to me:
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INSTRUCTIONS: Just hit "REPLY" to this e mail. Answ e r th e qu e stions, th e n hit "SEND". Pl e as e do not s e nd answ e rs only or attach a Word docum e nt. (Or you can copy and past e it into a n e w e mail window, if your e mail program is not s e t up to copy th e cont e nt into a r e ply.)
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Notice the extra spaces around the letter "e". These are real spaces and can be edited out in the copy sent back to me. But the copy in my sent file appears to be fine.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance.....

dave