Forward/Reply Editing HTML Email

2.0.0.16.WINXP PRO

Received HTML Email looks fine. The reply/forward document looks like a document brought up in web page design software and really is hard to edit the document; somethings being impossible to change without ruining the whole document.

Same problem occurs when copying/pasting an Emailinto Word.

To satisfy my needs I must save any photos, copy text into notepad striping HTML, then recreate a new document in Thunderbird.

Is there a work-around for this difficulty?

Dennis