Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Outlook 2007 - Change font or font size within your message list

Whether your eyes are young or old having the ability to customize the font size within the message list of Outlook can be beneficial.  Between the Navigation Pane and Reading appears the message list.  The default setting is Seogoe UI regular 8-point.  Follow the 4 steps below to customize...

1.  Within Outlook mail, from the View menu, select Current View and click on Customize Current View

2.  From the Customize View: Messages dialog box, click on Other Settings.









3.   From the Other Settings dialog box, within the Column Headers and Rows, and click on Row Font.



4.  Select a font, font style, and size that you want to use. Click OK on the Font, Other Settings, and Customize View: Messages dialog boxes.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/change-the-font-or-font-size-of-the-message-list-HA010274437.aspx

4 comments:

  1. Can the default setting be changed?

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  2. Yes, from the File menu select Options. Under the Mail subheading, if you click on Fonts (new mail messages)-style and size can be changed, also click on Fonts for Reply and composing. Click on OK when done. That will change the default settings.

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  4. Change the default font or text color for email messages- straight from Microsoft:


    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/change-the-default-font-or-text-color-for-email-messages-HA010356299.aspx

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