is the "style showing body text or Paragraph?

DAVEBLACKBURN75 said

Hi there. Ive just updated my version of Thunderbird and now all messages I compose have too much "line spacing" in the messages. Any quick fixes available!?? Thanks Dave

Not helpful to me.

Could you please instruct me step by step how to eliminate the extra spacing I'm getting between lines typed. A test email to another party said it wasn't showing that way at his end which confuses me even more.

@[antigua]

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Matt said

is the "style showing body text or Paragraph?

And where do I find "style" to see if that solves my problem?

@[dogcatcher]

What the last message made it so unclear I am not answering questions not from the original poster that the very same day you have to add your own homily. If the above information does not resolve your issue, please consider creating a new thread containing the specific details of your issue.

Doing so will allow the Mozilla volunteers to give you solutions that are more helpful to you as your question makes it clear you have never actually looked at the mail composition windows.

Mozilla support encourages us to search to see if our problem has already been asked and possibly resolved. Apparently you have the solution but since your answer to another correspondent was unclear to me I simply asked for clarification.

I find you current diatribe unhelpful when all I asked was, where do I find "style"

I don't want to have to change the style every time I compose a message -- how can I change the DEFAULT?

Okay, I've been suffering with having 'paragraph' mode and manually switching to 'body text' so that I would have control. Sometimes I like paragraphs, but often I will put sentences on separate lines but still want them against each other.

While composing a message, there is a drop box (only active when the email body area is selected) that will either be set to 'paragraph' or 'body text' by default and also has other options.

I searched all of the settings, looking for something that would allow changing the default composition formatting. I was particularly looking for 'composition' in the setting. Giving up, I have finally come to support to look for answers. Reading them over, it sounded like plenty of people had the issue but there weren't any clear solutions. The one solution that seemed to be provided implies that it changes how 'paragraph' setting behaves.

[check box] "When using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph"

I finally gave in and tried this 'solution' thinking, "this probably makes paragraph behave like body text for me but will still look like paragraph to the one receiving it. I'll just test by emailing myself using it."

So, I unchecked it and went to write an email... and it was in 'body text'. So turning it back on and composing new, default 'paragraph'. Uncheck compose fresh again, default 'body text'.

So, that option is actually: [check box] "Composition default as paragraph. Uncheck for body text."

Now that I have clarified what setting is needed to get 'body text' as default, what is the quickest way to get it active?

1) Click 'Write' to start composing a new email.

2) In the window for writing the email, click the 'Tools' menu.

3) Select 'Options'.

4) This should have 'Composition' selected (highlighted) with 'General', 'Addressing' and 'Spelling' tabs available. If not, select 'Composition'.

5) Make sure the 'General' tab is selected.

6) In the 'HTML' section located the "When using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph" check box. To default to 'body text' clear the check box, to default to 'paragraph' check the box.

7) Click 'OK' at the bottom of the option window.

8) Close the window for writing a new email.

9) Click 'Write' to compose a fresh email, the default should be as set in step 6 by that check box. (Make sure the email body are is selected to confirm.)

Hopefully this helps with anyone else still having trouble with this and looking for a solution.