fred spake thus:

In article , John Williamson
writes
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?

The easy way? Use Thunderbird or MS Outlook.

I didn't think Outlook had a newsreader?

Outlook does not, Outlook Express does.