Want to wrap to 80 characters in Outlook, just like Gmail does to emails sent as Plain Text

I want to wrap to 80 characters in Outlook, just like Gmail does to emails sent as Plain Text. Apart from Gmail, this feature also works in Evolution email client in Ubuntu OS and Apple Mail in Mac OS.

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I am unable to do this in Outlook 2010, even if I compose in Plain Text.

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Composing email in Outlook with Plain Text selected. Other options are Rich Text and HTML.

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Plain text is not wrapped after receiving email:

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The only way I've come up with is to create a HTML template containing a fixed width box with white/no borders. You can set the width to approximately 80 characters.

Here is a guide to creating Outlook stationery from MS Word.

When following the guide, where it says 'design your stationery', create a table with 1x1 rows and columns, and switch off the borders.

Then when you come to write your email using the template, simply write within that table cell.

NOTE: You may need administrator access to add files to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Stationery folder.