That ability was not added until Outlook 2007.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Hello group,
|
| I found a few other people asking this here, but no answer:
|
| I cannot reply to a HTML mail in Outlook 2003 without downloading the
| pictures. Why?
|
| It should be simple for Outlook to just copy over the HTML code to the
| reply. Why is it necessary to download the pictures from the external
| website? Is there a way to stop Outlook from doing this?
|
| The possibility to set the option "alway reply in plain text" is too
| hard. I want to use HTML text fomatting, I just don't want to download
| those pictures!
|
|
| Thanks for your help!
| Florian