HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\ \Common\MailSettings User key location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\ \Common\MailSettings When it doesn’t exist or is set to any other value, Outlook will attempt to wrap the message with the exceptions mentioned above. When you expect your lines to be wrapped and they are not, it is good to check in the Registry whether the WrapLines value has been set to 0 in one of the locations below. WrapLines Registry value has been set to 0īy default, the WrapLines Registry value doesn’t exist and lines will be wrapped whenever supported by the message encoding being used. When the used encoding character set of the message doesn’t support it (like UTF-8) and the message encoding hasn’t been set to 8-bit, lines will not be wrapped.When the WrapLines Registry value has been set to 0.When someone replies to your wrapped message, it will not use the wrapping settings of the initial message but the local client’s wrapping settings.When you view your message in the Sent Items folder you will not see the automatically wrapped text unless you are using an IMAP account from Gmail (as in that case the Sent Items are added by the mail server upon sending the message instead of directly by Outlook).Client settings for text wrapping is only respected for POP3 and IMAP accounts.
Of course, there are a few (complex) exceptions to these basic rules just to keep things fun and interesting -) Setting the wrapping option It doesn’t apply to HTML messages nor what you see while composing the message itself.
The main thing to realize is that this option only applies to Plain Text messages and controls how the message is being received by the recipient. The wrapping text option is a bit trickier to understand than its description suggests. Why isn’t it working or what is this option supposed to do then? The same is true for the received message. When I compose a message, the line still goes on forever and doesn’t break into a new line at character 40 at all. I’ve set Outlook’s “Automatically wrap text at character” option to 40 instead of the default 76 but it doesn’t appear to do anything.