Thread: Probably a simple answer

Allan,

Jigsaw has it right, SHIFT + ENTER is Line Feed, i.e it starts a new line for the text, while ENTER is Carriage Return, now used to seperate paragraphs.

So by typing a line pressing ENTER, and continuing the text, you are adding paragraph breaks rather than line breaks to the text. As we all know, a new para is a new sentence and should start with a capital letter.

Incidently, why are you bothering to try to manually control text flow in an email anyway. OK, it's valid for setting paragraph breaks or listing points etc, but for general text it is not neccesary because the email reader software will arrange the text to optimally fit within the display window, which can be any size.

In the course of a day I can use 4 different computers with different screen sizes. It is a lot easier on the eyes if the manual formatting of the text is kept to a minimum, so that the software can do it's job efficiently. After all, it is the only thing in the world that knows with certainty what size window it has to work with.

I'm not trying to have a go at you, just explain the cause of your problem, and the ways to avoid it.