Jack, If you choose to keep the text that was already in an e-mail when you reply to it and there were already greater-than signs, they'll still be there despite your changing options. It just won't put any new ones. You've no doubt seen e-mails where you see ten greater-than signs per line so that there's only room for one word on each line, and that's very annoying to read. For this reason, when I do send out a forward that needs to be copied, I put the e-mail through E Mail Stripper which nicely formats the text without all those greater-than signs and then I can forward that nice-looking document on and it will be very readable. Bill Powers -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx