Email sent by friend using Apple to two XP SP3 PCs both using OE6 (fully updated). When the email is opened on one PC, the sending font (Papyrus) is unaltered. On the other PC, it opens as Times New Roman. Then if the TNR version is forward to the first PC and then back to the original sender, it comes back to the latter as Papyrus.The two PCs, down to their OE options, are nearly the same in all aspects, but obviously something must be different. Can someone point me to what needs to be changed on the second PC (I guess something within OE) so that the original sending font is not altered?1 person needs an answerI do too

The recipient has to have the font installed on their computer and if its not, then the default font is displayed. It sounds as if that was the issue. You can check by composing a new message on the recipient's machine and see if Papyrus is listed as a font or go to Control Panel | Fonts. Also the recipient must not have the option checked under Tools | Options | Read to read all messages in plain text. steve "jfire7887" wrote in message news:f8d7268a-15ac-44e2-b39e-8df7ddb17854...Email sent by friend using Apple to two XP SP3 PCs both using OE6 (fully updated). When the email is opened on one PC, the sending font (Papyrus) is unaltered. On the other PC, it opens as Times New Roman. Then if the TNR version is forward to the first PC and then back to the original sender, it comes back to the latter as Papyrus.The two PCs, down to their OE options, are nearly the same in all aspects, but obviously something must be different. Can someone point me to what needs to be changed on the second PC (I guess something within OE) so that the original sending font is not altered?

No, both computers have Papyrus installed. It appears both in Control Panel | Fonts and Tools | Options | Compose. Also the latter option you mentioned is not checked. However, I have to amend my original problem. It appears that the first PC also has the problem; it is also receiving the Papyrus as TNR.The reason I'd thought otherwise: from the first PC, I had forwarded what the second PC had received back to the original sender. That person replied to me, and I noticed that the text that was TNR appeared now as Papyrus. So I thought the first PC was different. But I did not realize that the new text that came with it was TNR!Subsequent back-and-forth showed a pattern. New text sent as Papyrus came in as TNR. When any such text was sent back to the original sender, it seemed to be converted back to Papyrus, and then on subsequent receipt, Outlook Express would leave these "old" parts of the email as Papyrus, as if the previous parts of the email were an attachment to the newest (Papyrus -> TNR) text.

You can do a CTRL-F2 on the open message and look to see what the actual font being specified is. If Papyrus is the default font of the sender, then it is not specified by OE, so what you are seeing could be a consequence of that. But without seeing the actual messages, its difficult to determine. steve "jfire7887" wrote in message news:22e24458-3695-41e2-b020-6d654ff0688d...No, both computers have Papyrus installed. It appears both in Control Panel | Fonts and Tools | Options | Compose. Also the latter option you mentioned is not checked. However, I have to amend my original problem. It appears that the first PC also has the problem; it is also receiving the Papyrus as TNR.The reason I'd thought otherwise: from the first PC, I had forwarded what the second PC had received back to the original sender. That person replied to me, and I noticed that the text that was TNR appeared now as Papyrus. So I thought the first PC was different. But I did not realize that the new text that came with it was TNR!Subsequent back-and-forth showed a pattern. New text sent as Papyrus came in as TNR. When any such text was sent back to the original sender, it seemed to be converted back to Papyrus, and then on subsequent receipt, Outlook Express would leave these "old" parts of the email as Papyrus, as if the previous parts of the email were an attachment to the newest (Papyrus -> TNR) text.