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How to: Restore Outlook 2007 default enter key behavior from double space back to single space

by Terry Moore on January 12th, 2010

Outlook 2007 has an annoying feature where it assumes that every time you hit the enter key in a new message that you automatically want it to be double spaced.  You can easily just hit SHIFT+Enter to invoke this single space return but that get annoying after a while.  Here is how to make you Enter key just do a single space return.

Step 1
In a new email message click on the Format Text Tab

Step 2
Click the Change Styles button

Step 3
In the drop down click Style Set then click Word 2003

Step 4
To make it the default for all messages click the Change Style button again and this time click Set As Default

Here is a screen shot of the icons that you are clicking on.

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