Editing outgoing emails
I have a sx-month old MacBook Air running osx 10.8.1.
I use Apple Mail.
Out of the blue, I can no longer hightlight text in an outgoing email which I am composing and bold it, underline it, or italicize it.
This happened from one day to the next. I checked all my preferences and can't see any which would cause this.
Under Composing in Mail's preferences, I have chosen Plain Text. In the past, when I highlighted a word and bolded it, I would get an alert with something like - Do you want to change this message to Rich Text - and I would choose yes and then I could bold or italicize text in the message.
Now when I highlight text and try to bold it, I don't get that alert and I am unable to change the text in any way..
Would greatly any solutions anyone might suggest.
Thanks.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)