Interesting summary, Dave. I don't use many html features - bold, italic & sometimes colour - but the text size thing is a real annoyance. I've learnt to spot the replies with very small text and drop my text down a size to avoid them seeing it as large print.

However, I haven't mastered the problem of some emails changing my paragraph settings. I have a blank line between paragraphs - Return gives that. Replying to some emails, I find that Return doesn't give the blank line. If I then insert it, sometimes the recipient sees one blank line, sometimes two. I can't figure that one out.

Phil