| No Word Wrap in Gmail | wally wombat | 5/7/12 6:02 PM | There is so much stuff about this topic that I cannot find a simple reply, so I'll try asking. I cannot get gmail to word wrap when composing a message, either in IE or Firefox. I have searched everywhere for a turnon/turnoff option to no avail. Any |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | wdurham | 5/7/12 10:51 PM | There isn't an option you can turn on or off. GMail wraps text to fit a message window by default. At the recipient end, it will wrap text to fit the recipient's window. The exception is if you are composing mail in Plain text - while composing, GMa |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | phlipsan | 5/18/12 3:11 PM | Same problem here. When I type in a GMail compose window, the line does not wrap - it goes on until I either stop typing or hit a return. It's impossible to see or edit. I understand that the text is formatted when you send it, but what about while y |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/18/12 3:21 PM | Which versions of your Browsers are you using. This used to happen in IE a long time ago. |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | phlipsan | 5/18/12 4:48 PM | Firefox 12.0. I switched to plain text and word wrap worked, but when I switched back, it quit again. It gets better. I switched the theme to one that I was told worked with word wrap - Turf - and word wrap worked. I then switched back to the theme t |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/18/12 5:35 PM | Probably a temporary glitch that corrected itself as you were switching back and forward. |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | MtFitzRoy | 8/20/12 10:45 AM | Some mails don't seem to word wrap and I had to use the slider. I tried to look it up in the group and apparently it is an unresolved old problem. Many unanswered threads. One was open December last year and I now, eight months on, still experience t |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | Eileen Murphy | 11/2/12 12:36 PM | I think this happens when the sender has an embedded image which widens the message window. At least that's what happens to me. Wonder if you're experiencing the same. |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | Gmailer at work | 1/9/13 11:26 AM | Still the same for me. The text wrapping is terrible in gmail. I use my gmail account on several different sized monitors and it is a gong show. Further to this, sometimes the vertical reading pane is much narrower than the space available, whether o |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | wdurham | 1/10/13 9:06 PM | Text does wrap to the width of the window. Unfortunately, it's the overlarge fixed-width image sent by your correspondent that fixes the width of the window. If you don't want to receive messages that are too wide for your screen to easily display, |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | Steve Thorpe | 1/11/13 9:31 PM | That is not the cause … I just received an email with no image, just one line of text: 433 characters, and is is not wrapping! |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | wdurham | 1/12/13 3:17 AM | OK - so have a look at the headers and the coding in that email. Open it and use the More dropdown next to the Reply button to Show Original. Then you can inspect how the message was coded and see why that single line does not wrap. |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | Gmailer at work | 1/14/13 12:15 PM | To me, it should work. The headers and coding are of no consequence. Make it work Google. The reading pane size should also fit the screen and it doesn't often. |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | wdurham | 1/14/13 12:31 PM | "Make it work Google". If your senders send information that cannot wrap, Gmail cannot wrap it. So tell your senders to "make it work". |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | JohPre | 1/28/13 11:41 PM | That is ridiculous. The product changes to match what's going on in the market, not the other way around! What stops them from having an option in settings that lets the user configure the max width his text should get before wrapping, when composin |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | wdurham | 1/29/13 12:56 AM | There already is such an option for mail you send yourself - use Plain Text Mode. That will fix the line length in messages you send at approx 70 characters. But there's still nothing that can be done with incoming mail, which is formatted by the se |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | Aquastar | 2/9/13 5:59 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | Susan Fitz | 2/25/13 8:57 PM | Where can I access "Plain Text Mode"? Appreciate your help! |
| Re: No Word Wrap in Gmail | wdurham | 2/26/13 2:16 AM | You'll find it in the "More..." menu in a Compose or Reply window. See the screenshot here: |