You can change your default message format to HTML by going to;
Tools-> Options-> tab Mail Format
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"Johnny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:036BCF8E-111D-4E61-A296-(E-Mail Removed)...
> all of a sudden when I fo either to do a new e-mail or reply to one... the
> curser types nothing in the body of the message. I found the default in
> plain text and if I change i to html I now have a toolbar the sould give
> me
> normal text. It is set on 'bland' Help?