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Wrap Lines at About 65 Characters in Emails

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Most email programs can wrap your text for you when you send it, and you should make use of this feature.

If your text is not wrapped, this can look odd at the recipient's side, and shorter lines are much easier to read than long ones.

Wrap Lines at About 65 Characters in Emails

This is why you should

  • set your email client's automatic word wrapping feature to something between 65 and 75 characters

to make sure your messages do look good in every email program on every computer.

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