"P" Paragraph mark in Outlook 2003 getting rid of it?

Question

I'm helping a user in a small office with an odd problem.
When they open up a new email and start to write body text,
the Paragraph mark appears. I can turn it off, but the user would rather not have to turn it off every time they write a new email.

Removing "word" as the editor does work, but the user
really likes the realtime "wavy line" autocorrect that the
built-in editor doesn't seem to provide.

I tried a few things, including deleting normal.dot, which forces
Word to rebuild it.

Any ideas on how I can force the Paragraph marker
to stop appearing in newly composed emails?
(In a Reply, it does not appear).

Answer 1

This would be a setting in Outlook, not Word. The Word template (normal.dot) is only for new Word documents. Outlook uses it's own version of word processor.
Open Outlook, start a new message and see what toolbars show up top. If you don't see the standard toolbar, right click on the blank area to the right of the toolbars and select Standard. You can then turn off the paragraph markings.