Nope, it looked like it did at first, and it looks like it changed back when I exited Outlook 2010 and opened it again.

Can this be connected with my problem with the E-mail address look up?
When I address an e-mail message, I hit D and get a list of mostly useless e-mail addresses that I have used in the past. I highlight them and delete them but they return next e-mail address...

I did the delete all and cleared out the contacts but if used since then, they remain un-deletable in the queue. I only mention this in this note in case the two might be related...

You are right. I forgot one step. It didn't work because we were just modifying the style for one session. In other words, we did not modify the normal template.

Sometimes the "set as default" feature is flaky. I don't really use that, so I can't comment.

What I prefer to do is to open the email normal template directly and edit it. It's easier to backup my customizations that way.

Launch Word. From Word, open C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Temp lates/NormalEmail.dotm

You have to open from Word instead of opening the file directly. In Word, go to the Home tab, Styles group.

Right click on the normal style, select modify.

Then click the the bottom left "format" button, select "paragraph...".

Under "spacing", change the values to 0 for both before and after.

Save and close the template. That should work.

Jay

It makes sense to edit the original file and yes, again it looks like it is going to work.

Funny how it takes time or figure out a typo. Your directions said to look for the "/Temp lates/" folder. I was wondering what are temporary "lates".

Just as when I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went...
Suddenly it dawned on me...
(-:

Thanks again...

You cured a strong peeve on mine. All one has to do is hit <Enter> a second time when they want to add a space between paragraphs.
I wonder why was the added space the default.

Haha. Nice quip about the sun.

You're welcome. Glad your peeve is fixed.

Can you believe it? it is not working again...
I now have three situations that reset after "fixing" them. Is there any possibility that these are all related (well, other than being MS)?

1) I cannot permanently eliminate the extra space after paragraphs. (This is after editing the NormalEmail.Dotm template)
2) I enable the "remove cursor when typing" option but it only works for a while.
3) I can delete the auto-complete entries in e-mail and delete the entries as contacts but they keep coming back in auto-complete. (and this is after cleaning up the contacts, using the delete all option, and rebuilding the list of auto-completes that I actually want..)




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When you reopened the email normal template again after your problem resurfaced, was the paragraph spacings in the Normal style reseted?

Jay

Just did it again and it does seem to stick. I have tried this so many times, I now have the template folder as a desktop shortcut.

One thing that is annoying is that when I go to save, it doesn't go back into the same folder but tosses it off into the Documents library and I have to go rename the original, chase the new version and put it back in the templates folder. )-: It is possible that this may have been part of the problem in earlier attempts but I am sure I did all this back then..

For now, it seems to be sticking.
Optimistically, it might work this time...