Vista - New Vista user - Horizontal scroll bar settings to remove

I had been working with Windows XP Pro - currently using Vista Home version.
I access hotmail, Outlook (2000 &/or 2003) and some web sites where the
horizontal scroll bar will appear, requiring me to read some text that
continues off the view page rather than wrap/contain it within a view. I
would like to deactivate the horizontal scroll bar (ie: reading hotmail in XP
never imbedded a horizontal scroll bar to my opened mail and now that's the
only way I can read it). View doesn't seem to offer the on/off option nor can
I find where I can click on the bar anywhere itself for an option to remove
it. Please tell me how I can remove horizontal scroll bar from my view
settings so my pages will automatically wrap in Vista. Thanks.
LY