Found this through a search... To enable Plain Text editing in Windows Live Hotmail classic: * Click New[/link] on your Windows Live Hotmail classic Today page. * Follow the Show rich text link if available. o To switch to plain text, click Show plain text. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Lila Garner <lilagarner@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the Help Desk reference, which I printed. It refers to a "Tools menu" which I can't find, and the other instructions are much more complicated probably because Hotmail has changed its format since the instructions were written. Actually, there's a Plain Text option at the top which I clicked on, and that was all that was necessary. > > Unless, of course, jumping faces or advertising in HTML are added at the end of this... > > I've been using Rich Text for all messages with no problem except the Thank You, and I suspect that there was some kind of ad at the bottom. > > Lila > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:53:04 -0400 > > From: computers.admin@gmail.com > > To: computers@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Hotmail and plain text (was Thank you) > > > > Hi Lila > > > > You wrote: > > > >> I asked for help with deleting Temporary Internet Files, and received the answer. When I attempted to reply, my 'thank you' message was bounced because it contained HTML which rootsweb was unable to strip away. > >> > >> > >> Since I didn't add any HTML myself, I don't know exactly what happened, but I>wanted to say thank you to those who replied to my plea. > > > > > > It appears that it's somewhat difficult to use plain text with many > > web-based email programs, and particularly difficult with Hotmail. > > The instructions given by RootsWeb's Help Desk are at > > and those for > > Hotmail sound pretty confusing to me. Perhaps someone on the list > > knows a better way to set Hotmail to plain text and keep it there. > > > > Google mail will not let a user set the default to plain text and it > > can be hard to remember to toggle the formatting, but at least it's > > easy to do. > > > > Best wishes, > > Lynne > > > > > > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Take pity on Digest subscribers and remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- -------- K. Ross kr5927@gmail.com