Prevent Outlook from displaying plain text emails with formatting

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Our app sends plain text emails. They appear fine in some email clients but the ASCII/text table lines are distorted in Outlook 2010. How can you force Outlook to view these as plain text without any formatting?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '16 at 13:48

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Figured it out. Have to change your plain text font to a monospaced font such as Courier New.

Described here:

File, Options, Mail, Stationery and Fonts
Set "Composing and reading plain text messages" font to Courier New.

More info here.

answered May 24 '16 at 13:48

Marcus Leon

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '16 at 13:35

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File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Email Security > Read all Standard Mail in Plain Text

answered May 24 '16 at 13:35

Narzard

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I tried that but it didn't work. Outlook is already reading it as plain text but it's applying a non monospaced font. Have to change that and you're good. See my answer. – Marcus Leon May 24 '16 at 13:49

Prevent Outlook from displaying plain text emails with formatting

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