According to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052430881033.aspx, the "Ignore original message text in reply or forward" applies to "both Outlook and Microsoft Word editors". However, in using MS Word 2003 as the email editor for MS Outlook 2003, I'm finding that the entire message is spell checked when the original message is included in a reply. I don't have the setting selected that prefixes the original message with a character. Can someone help me get this to work properly? TIA.