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Text in the body of outlook emails and appointments is not appearing correctly. It is widely spaced and always has a very wide left margin. The problem appears with all three message formats (html, plain text, rich text).
This problem appeared suddenly, with no dramatic system changes, and I can't figure out how to reverse it. AI has led me to a variety of possible solutions, including re-installing outlook 365 and disabling all add-ins, but none of them have worked.
Running Outlook in safe mode does correct the problem, but that comes with a loss of functionality. Any ideas?
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
Do you have Immersive Reader enabled? Look on the view tab.
https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/immersive-reader-outlook/
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Diane Poremsky / M365 Apps & Services MVP
Thank you so much Diane! That's all it was. Somehow immersive reader got enabled. The amount of effort I went through to fix this silly thing!