"~ FreeSpirit ~" <spammenot@nospam.net> wrote in message news:%23PdtPcNiEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
 > Please help.  We have OE6 on a W-XP machine and the Save Attachments is
 > GRAYED OUT making saving attachments impossible.  What can be wrong and how
 > is this fixed?

 OE menu, Tools/Options/Security tab and uncheck the obvious referencing attachments.
 >
 > We are unable to switch from Plain Text to HTML and back when forwarding
 > something from Usenet to our inbox.  It will go as an HTML even with Plain
 > Text checked in Tools/Options/Send/Plain Text.

 OE menu, Tools/Options/Send - look for a "Reply to messages using format in which sent" and uncheck it.
 >
 > We cannot use Save Attachments from the Newsgroups as it is Grayed out there
 > as well.

 Same answers apply since the changes to the two menus above will fix it both in mail and news.
 --
 Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
 Please reply only to newsgroup.
 ==========================  Got it - THANKS!!!!    :-)))

 FS..........