From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Isn't that a contradiction?

Plain Text, is Plain Text.

Anything with color/bold/Italic is either Rich Text, or HTML.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4558cc69{at}w3.nls.net...
> When composing in plain text with Thunderbird how do you change the color
> or bold or italic of a particular word??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> Tony Williams wrote:
>> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>> Why won't Thunderbird let you set the color and and bold
& italic for
>>>> plain text fonts??
>>>
>>> I don't know, but when using plain text, the readers of your messages
>>> are only going to get plain text in whatever font they have as default.
>>>
>>
>> True, but Thunderbird can display plain text as *bold*, /italic/ or
>> _underlined_ when reading replies and quotebacks. I also have it set to
>> display different levels of quoting in different colours which is quite
>> nifty.
>>

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