ORIGINAL: Old Sourdough
(Whew!! It would have been nice to be able to "paste" that rather than having to type it all out. I hope that I typed it correctly!)
To save you some time typing if you highlight the text in the original message and CTRL-C to copy it and THEN hit the reply button and CTRL-V to paste it into the reply window.
So CTRL-C is copy
and CTRL-V is paste
This works most everywhere in windows.
And definately in the reply windows.