When I saw in the OP:

In OE6, despite being set to receive and send mail in HTML format,

I figured /set to receive/ in HTML was the posters way of saying that Read
In Plain Text was not checked.

I need a newer/better Crystal Ball ©.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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Sorry not to catch that earlier. Must've not had the right [coffee].

steve

"Jon" wrote in message
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Thanks, Steve, that fixed it. So easy to overlook a little tick in a box
:-)


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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I misread your message. Go to Tools | Options | Read and Uncheck the
option to read messages in plain text only. See if that fixes it.

steve

"Jean" wrote in message
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Thanks, Steve, but he would like to read them in HTML as well as
sending them... OE Quotefix with only function in that format.

Thanks,
Jean


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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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
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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