Extra Line Breaks Removed in Outlook

Ever get that subtle message that Outlook has changed the contents of an email you may have received?  It looks like this:

This causes a big problem for things like automated email alerts.  There is a way to prevent your Outlook from messing with your text-based email messages.  See Microsoft's KB article: 287816.  It's pretty simple, really, but difficult to find:

1. Open up Tools -> Options
2. Click the "E- mail Options..." button on the "Preferences" screen.
3. Uncheck the box labeled "Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages
4. Click OK twice and then next time you view a plain text email message the message should be gone, and the message will be formatted as it was intended.

Another place where this can be fixed is on the sending end.  Basically, if you add two space characters as the beginning of every line before you send the message, Outlook will not trim the line breaks.  See here for more details:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/newsletter_publishing/newsletter_formatting/remove_line_breaks_issue_Microsoft_Outlook_2003_when_publishing_text_newsletters_20051217.htm