HTML tags in messages

[BP]

I use Outlook 2000 and Word 2000 on Windows 2000. Word is my email editor
and set to send in HTML format.
When I receive replies back I often see the original message with all the
HTML tags visible in the message. I think this is perhaos the reply is
coming from someone who is not using HTML.

Are there any settings that I need to check so that the message reply and
the email trail does not show the HTML tags.

Thanks,
Brett