The "permanent pen" is a font and color that the user can set up, and which, when set, will be used in any email the user responds to. This has been a very nice feature if you are responding to an email by typing your comments within the email you're responding to since it makes your responses stand out and you don't need to keep resetting the font and color whenever you move to another spot in the email. Does Windows Live Mail have such a feature? I've searched for it but don't know what it might be called in Live Mail, if indeed it even has such a thing. 

Thanks in advance for your help.  LemL.