As near as I can remember it's checked by default, so someone must have
unchecked it.

"Roger Fink" wrote in message
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How did I miss that?

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
"Roger Fink" wrote in message
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Using Windows 2000 and I've got OE6 in both the Administrator and
user profiles. For some reason in the Administrator profile the
headers in the message pane don't automatically send the message
text to the Preview Pane.
Instead the headers need to be individually double clicked (i.e., new
window) to get the messages downloaded to this computer. In the user
profile
the messages are downloaded automatically. I tried resetting all the
newsgroup messages headers but it made no difference - can't figure
out what
setting in OE is different in the two profiles.

Tools | Options | Read
Automatically download messages when viewing in the Preview Pane