Options-composition-general Under the HTML section.

This has just been introduced in an attempt to keep in line with how eg: research documents are produced and how type is displayed in web pages.

I know...it isn't how people write letters, where Enter means go to next line and Paragraph meant next line plus indent.

So, the developers decided to make it a default to alter the setup and change users preferences.

Currently, 'Paragraph' is now set as default and when you press 'Enter' it means 'double space' new line with no indentation.

quote from the link you mention: The Thunderbird composition window now functions more like a word processor in that pressing the "Enter" key inserts a new paragraph, pressing "Shift+Enter" inserts a new line. This new behavior can be switched off in the Tools > Options > Composition > General tab.

To change this to auto select 'Body Text' and 'Enter' means a go to next line: Either Via 'Menu Bar' 'Tools' > 'Options' > 'Composition' > 'General' tab

OR via 'Mail Toolbar' 'Menu icon' > 'Options' > 'Options' > 'Composition' > 'General' tab

uncheck 'when using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph.' click on OK

I've had a thought, do you mean you do not want double spacing, but would prefer one and a half spacing ?

Try looking here.

Thanks to Toad-Hall & Airmail, I finally understand it. Thank you, thank you both

I don't want "Paragraph" as the default -- it forces me to have to change the style every single time I write an e-mail, and what's more, you can't change the style until AFTER you start typing something. I want to change the DEFAULT to "Body Text" and have it stay that way. I am not finding an answer here.

Kwikoff what is your problem. You have posted your own thread and added on to 2 existing threads that both have the solution. This one even has a picture. What part do you not understand?

I've been looking for a place to change the DEFAULT. It is totally not intuitive when you say there is a place to change the style by checking the box for single-spacing style under Options-Composition. There is a checkbox that says "When using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph." That says nothing about "Style," nothing about "single spacing," nothing about "Body Text," and nothing about "Default spacing."

Also, you can't check "Single Spacing" as the answers I found suggest -- you can only UNcheck the box that says "When using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph." This appears to have solved the problem, but again, it is so far from obvious that it did not seem I had an answer.