In my Outlook messages recently I have noticed that there are added line breaks after a certain number of characters. I suspect that these are being added to my outgoing messages only, not inbound messages, because inbound messages seem to have no added line breaks.
How can I determine if Outlook is adding line breaks to my outgoing message or if it is just the viewer showing the email as having line breaks in, but it does not actually have them?
Also, how can I disable the addition of line breaks either in the viewer or in the outgoing mail processor as the case may be?
Version is Microsoft Office 13
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
- create test email message with the following text (no line breaks)
1234567-10 234567-20 234567-30 234567-40 234567-50 234567-60 234567-70 34567-80 234567-90 23456-100 23456-110 23456-120 23456-130 23456-140 3456-150 23456-160 23456-170 23456-180 23456-190 23456-200
send message to self
message is received with the following line breaks (occurring every 70 characters):
1234567-10 234567-20 234567-30 234567-40 234567-50 234567-60 234567-70
234567-80 234567-90 23456-100 23456-110 23456-120 23456-130 23456-140
23456-150 23456-160 23456-170 23456-180 23456-190 23456-200
Note that I have Outlook set to use UTF-8 encodings. See below:
Also, I have tried modifying the setting "Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages." Whether the box is checked makes no difference.
4 Answers
Outlook 2013: How can I disable the addition of line breaks either in the viewer or in the outgoing mail processor as the case may be?
How to prevent Outlook 2010 and 2013 from adding line breaks to sent plain text messages
When you send a plain text message, by default, Outlook will wrap text and insert line breaks at 76 characters. This might break your formatted paragraphs and URL links.
There is a solution which requires registry changes, however there also an option that fixes it without touching the registry. Here are the steps:
- Click on the File tab and select Options.
- Click on “Advanced” in the left column of the Options window.
- Scroll down to the “International Options” section.
- Change “Preferred encoding for outgoing messages” to “Unicode (UTF-8)”.
- Click “OK” at the bottom of the Options window.
- Restart Outlook
Note: This only works for Outlook 2013 and 2010. For older versions of Outlook (2007 and 2003), you have to use the registry tweak
