Missing Reply separator and cannot get paragraph symbol to stay gone.

Sad that there's been no reply to this as my copy of Outlook has just started doing the same thing. Replies have started with a few lines and horizontal rule exactly as you show for more years than I care to remember. Then today, gone. No setting changed. No advice on MS about it, just gone.

I have to admit to being fed-up with this kind of thing with MS. Things just 'randomly' change. Application defaults change (to MS product surprisingly!), screens go milky and the app crashes etc. Why can MS not understand that THE thing people want to most, is reliability. I do not want 'features' added that I'll never use and which give rise the milky window of app death