Thank you Roger, I'll look about for my problem. chris -----Original Message----- From: Roger D. Shuman <rdshuman@hotmail.com> To: SHUMAN-L@rootsweb.com <SHUMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 11:18 AM Subject: [SHUMAN] fixing your e-mail messages >Folks: > >For the most part, I am a lurker on this ListServe. Every now and again I will give my 2 cents. With regards to fixing the length of a line that your e-mail software makes (i.e. how long your lines of text are before they automatically return to start a new line), I have this... > >1). If you're using Microsoft Outlook Express (my version is 5.00.2314.1300) click on the "Tools" option from the main screen (your inbox) and choose the "Options" option.Then, click on the "Send" tab and choose the button that says, "Plain Text Settings" next to "Mail Sending Format". Here, you can adjust the number where you automatically wrap text. Try decreasing the number until you stop getting occasional complaints. Most e-mail software has an option where you can adjust the word wrap feature. Sometimes it's just a matter of finding it. > >2) This second option is for receivers. If you really don't want to keep scrolling back and fort to read a message, copy the text and place it in a new Text file (i.e. create one...you have to have Windows to do this). Choose the "Word-wrap" option and...ta da! > >Well, I hope that helps some of you. Keep the messages coming. I'm a pretty faithful reader and it's nice to see how many of you there are on the list now. It's my hope that someday we will soon find the name of the alien space ship from Venus that we all descended from. > >May the Force Be With You, > >Roger Shuman >(from the John Shuman family circa 1760s of Lancaster, PA) > > > >==== SHUMAN Mailing List ==== > ----------------- > Support the people who support you. Join Rootsweb at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html/ > RootsWeb supports our SHUMAN research by hosting our mailing list! > Do you support RootsWeb? > ----------------- >