Outlook 2003 adds extra line feeds in pasted text

Outlook 2003 adds extra line feeds in pasted text This is driving me nuts: every single time I paste some text from Word or Wordpad into Outlook 2003, it ads extra blank lines. For example, if I paste:
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"Unless you need to preserve the formatting coming from Word/Wordpad, you can paste the text as plain-text using Ctrl+Alt+V to ""Paste Special"", then select ""Unformatted Text"".

Of course, you would select ""Unformatted Text"", not ""HTML Format"" as I had selected in the screenshot."