Go to Tools | Options | Send and uncheck the option to reply to the messages
in the format they were sent. Then the replies should be all in plain text,
if plain text is your default settings under Tools | Options | Send | Mail

steve

"Jean" wrote in message
...
My brother is running a computer with XP HE SP2, fully updated.

In OE6, despite being set to receive and send mail in HTML format, the
messages are displayed in plain text; however, when clicking on 'reply',
the
messages then revert to HTML.

Re-setting via OE's options makes no difference - it will not retain the
setting, and pressing alt+shift+H, only works for the message which is
displayed at the time.

He had OE Quotefix installed, we uninstalled it to see if that was the
cause, but to no avail - it's just the same.

Is there a fix or tweak available, please?

Thank you,
Jean