Outlook automatically tries to do its own cleanup of data. Each user has control on turning it on and off. Tools -> Options -> Preferences -> E-mail Options button Remove Extra line breaks in plain text messages
Here is a little know trick for Outlook. Outlook will not remove the extra line break if it is preceded by 3 spaces (so you need to put 3 spaces at the end of the lines you don't want Outlook to join together). As for a tab character, when you are building your string you can copy a tab character from Notepad and place it between the " " Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Milke Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: How to do a line break and a tab? Hello there, I'm looping through a table field and to put together a list of users like this: Character Field 1 = $Character Field 1$ + "here a break" + $Tbl_Col_1$ + " " + $Tbl_Col_2$ + " " + $Tbl_Col_3$ Then I'm sending Character Field 1 via Email but outlook removes the breaks somehow. Is there a way I can force the line breaks here? Also how can I use a tab instead of " " between the columns? Thanks Mark _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
