Cash wrote
Muddymike wrote

I have just started using windows live mail after many years of using Outlook express for email and newsgroups and am
stuck!

Can anyone tell me how to get it to insert the symbols before the
old text in my replies?

Apparently you can't Mike. There was a fair bit of discussion on this in the Windows 7 groups when Windows 7 first
came out for general use.

This was one of the reasons I ditched Windows 7 and reverted back to XP (and Outlook Express 6).

You can run a virtual XP in the better versions of 7 and just run the EO6 in that.