Bonnie,

I've OE version 6.00.2800.1106 and there's "Read all messages as plain text" on the Read tab. BTW, it's checkbox #4 from the top. I'm running WIn2KSP3.

>Cindy,
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>It must be OS dependent. I've just installed the latest IE cumulative patch and I still don't see the checkbox (in fact, the top half of the Read page only has 3 checkboxes). I'm running OE on my W2K machine. I'm betting you're using something different ....
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>~~Bonnie
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>>>I use OE 6 and there is no check box that says to Read all mail in plain text on the Tools | Options | Read page.
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>>I'm using . It's the 4th of 5 check boxes in the top half of the Read page. I think it installed with some IE update.