Subject Re: formatting messages in the NG From Lee Grant <camilee@nospam.comcast.net> Date Wed, 3 Feb 2021 23:04:37 -0500 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Gaetano, No. :) If you check the Help for Thunderbird, you'll find that only using HTML mode allows you to treat messages in response, as if they were in a word processor.  Plain Text, no. Sorry. I looked for a Margins reference and there was none. I do know when I type messages in this message, it shows only showing about half the screen, and when posted, it actually takes up more of the screen, and I've tried looking at options for each and find nothing, which is why I searched the Help Documentation and found nothing. If you happen to find something that disproves my research on the subject, I'm open to looking at it. :) Lee On 2/2/2021 3:26 PM, Gaetano D. wrote: > > Hi All, > > I use Thunderbird as news reader and I was looking for a way to use bold > fonts to *highlight *parts of my messages and for a way to use the full > width of the window when typing messages. > > The only way I found is to switch to HTML format. Two questions in this > respect: > >  1. is there any limitation on using HTML on the dBase newsgroups? >  2. is there a way to use simple formatting in plain text mode >     (bold/underline/italics) and to make Thunderbird use the full width >     of the screen when composing text messages? > > Thanks, > > Gaetano. >