Reading Plain Text Instead of HTML, Embedded Images Missing

[Vicki]

I have Outlook 2003 set up to compose in HTML and NOT read in plain text.
Al;though my settings accurately reflect what I set up, messages I send to
e-mail groups ( I receive copies) are now plain text. Everything I know to
check is correct.

I noticed this when I sent an image inserted in the body of an e-mail. When
I received it the first time, the dreaded red "x" appeared where the jpg
image should have been. So, I resent an e-mail as a test. That 2nd e-mail and
several subsequent ones I sent were brought in Outlook as plain text, not
HTML as it had been 2 hours before, and the image is, of course, missing.

I visited Microsoft's website and could find no help other than what I had
already tried, and I completed a system restore to yesterday, to no avail.

I'm working with Windows XP Pro.

Any suggestions on what may have happened and how I can fix it?

Thanks.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If you see an X in the message body where a picture should be, you are
composing in HTML format and not Plain Text.
Which method of inserting a picture did you use?
Is the picture located on a web server?
Do other recipients of the message also get the red X?

 

[Vicki]

Outlook is set to compose AND read (by virtue of not having "read in plain
text checked") in HTML, which is why I'm having the problem. I don't know why
messages I am sending with an embedded picture are being read as plain text.
The red x only occurred once. After that, the picture simply was not in the
body of the e-mail when it came into Outlook, but when I checked my Sent box
the picture was embedded in the body.

When I insert a picture I go to the menu bar, click on Insert, then on
Picture and Browse to where the picture is saved on my computer, select the
picture and click OK.

Images I send are not located on a web server, but on my personal computer.

When the red x version appeared, it was also a problem for other individuals
who read e-mails in HTML.

Another note. This started occurring yesterday AFTER my computer was
automatically updated overnight and restarted. That would have been a
Microsoft update.

Thank you for working with me to resolve this issue.