Remove Sender's stationery when replying

[Guest]

I get messages from someone using some weird stationery with a funky
background and purple Comic Sans typeface. I want to use my standard font
when replying, and I would like to clear the background if possible. I have
10pt Tahoma set up as my "Reply" font, but Outlook ignores this if the
original message uses the sender's stationery. It's a PITA to type my
response and then have to highlight my reply and change the font, size, and
color every where I typed. Is there a way to cause Outlook to use my Reply
font regardless of the sender's stationery? Apparently OE can do this, but I
can't find how to do this in Outlook 2003.

 

[Guest]

Oh, and converting to Plain Text and back to HTML isn't an option, since it
loses the markup of the original message (bullets, indents, italics, etc.)