Spell-checking disappears

[agibsonsw]

Hello. Outlook 2003.

A lady's spell-checking wavvvy-lines (sic.) disappear when creating emails. I suggested it is because she is replying to an email that was created as plain text.
Is there a simple way to reply to an email as Word..?

Andy.

[HansV]

Does she have an automatic signature? If so, what happens if she temporarily turns it off?

[agibsonsw]

Does she have an automatic signature? If so, what happens if she temporarily turns it off?

Intriguing question? I shall ask her tomorrow.

Ta, Andy.

[agibsonsw]

Does she have an automatic signature? If so, what happens if she temporarily turns it off?

I feel silly asking without knowing why.. I'm assuming that having a signature might convert the email to HTML format,
thus disabling the Word spell-checking feature?

Am I correct to suggest that if she replies to a (plain) text email it will also default to plain text? Andy.

[HansV]

When I searched Google for this problem, I found a suggestion that having a signature may interfere with spell checking.

By default, a reply to a message will be in the same format (HTML, Rich Text or Plain Text) as the original message, unless the user has ticked the option to "Read all standard mail in plain text".

[agibsonsw]

Thank you Hans.