Prevent Outlook from wrapping text in messages

Question

How can I prevent Outlook from wrapping the text in my messages?

For example, if I save a draft of an email, when I open it up again, line breaks have been inserted.

I have options set to UTF-8.

Solution

file->Options-> Mail

in the 'Message format' block: Automatically warp text at character->132

Default is 76 and is quite alright

you cannot remove it or make it longer than 132... (Outlook mail Format)

Comments

[Laughing Vergil]

What version of Outlook are you using?

[Máté Juhász]

I also use Outlook 2013, but have never heard about this issue. Does it affect all of your mails? Are all lines wrapped? To which length?

[Laughing Vergil]

Are you OK with using HTML emails? You could try replacing all spaces in your HTML email with non-breaking spaces. This should leave the lines exactly as formatted.

[Jeff]

Is word your default editor for outlook? Also have your tried RTF?

[John]

That was using the HTML mail format as well.