It was the end of a VERY long day when I posted the first message and it appears I wrote "Options" instead of "Preferences". I'm not all that expert, as you can see. Sorry! Step-by-step instructions for colouring the repeated message text for Netscape Communicator 4.5: Go to: Edit Click: Preferences Go to: Mail + Newsgroups - Settings Plain quoted text beginning with ">" is displayed with: Style (choose the one you like, I use italic) Colour (select the contrast colour you like best) Size (choose the size - Regular, Bigger or Smaller. I chose smaller) Click: OK By the way, I found that this resulted in a different colour on the printout as well which just as great. Good luck! Magdalena Northern Portugal