Hi Richard,

It's problematic to try changing the HTML elements in the reply. Which
instructions, the old or new, will be operative. There are two suggestions I
can think of:

1 Enter all your reply text first, then highlight and change font and color
2 Before entering your reply text change the format to plain text, then
back to Rich Text (HTML). Set your preferences for font and color and enter
the reply text.


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Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MS-MVP - Outlook Express
Lynnwood, WA
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"Richard J." wrote in message
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Using Windows XP Home and OE6, I have no problems changing fonts, font
sizes and colours when sending a new mail.

But when replying to a Rich Text mail in Rich Text, I sometimes like to
interleave my responses between paragraphs or sentences of the original
mail, and to set my responses to have a different font/size/colour to
the original. So I place the cursor at the end of a sentence, press
enter twice (to create a blank line), decrease indentation on that line
to delete the vertical bar and set font, colour etc. for my text.
Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. I find that although I
can apparently set a new font (which shows up in the font box), as soon
as I start typing, it reverts to the sender's font. If I carry on
typing, and then try to select my text and change font or colour, it
doesn't work.

Yet with other mails, I seem to have no problem doing this. Any ideas
on what is causing this and how to get round it?
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)