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How do I change the view font on all my Outlook 2003 email
folders now that I've moved to a new notebook PC?
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Naturally there are several places that control the look, style and size of items on your screen. And naturally, it's difficult to find them all, and when you do, they often don't control exactly, or only, what you want.
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So these are some approaches I'd look into:
- Change the resolution of your screen (affects everything). If you're running 1280x1024, change to 1024x768. Text (and everything else, for that matter) will appear bigger. That's in Control Panel, Display, Settings.
- Another approach that achieves similar results is to change the "DPI", or "Dots Per Inch" setting of your display. That, too, is in Control Panel, Display, Settings, in the Advanced tab. This article has more on it as well: How can I make the text on my screen larger?
- Now, I haven't done this extensively, so I don't know how difficult it is to get ALL of Outlook to change, but on Outlook's View menu, hit Arrange By, and then Custom will allow you to select the fonts to be used for that view.
- You can also look at Options, Mail Format, Fonts and select a larger size, though that will also impact the actual font size used in any HTML you might send.
- And finally as you view a message, if your mouse has a wheel, ctrl+rolling the wheel will increase or decrease the text size for most (though not all HTML) messages.
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October 9, 2010 12:44 AM
when i get some (but not all) e mails i need to scroll accross to be able to read it, how do i get around this?
October 20, 2010 2:34 AM
How do I make the size of my new (out going)
mail page larger?
December 27, 2011 2:16 PM
step by step appears easy enough to follow, I will give it a go
February 2, 2013 10:12 AM
Hello, I have somehow enlarged the text of the yahoo mail screen i.e. all the words like INBOX; DRAFT etc, everything is so large that I cannot get more than a small part of the normal screen on the screen now. I have no toolbar visible so that I could try to change it back to normal. What do I do? Please help!
February 2, 2013 3:30 PM
@Kaija,
Try holding down the ctrl key and tapping the minus key a few times. That will zoom out the browser. Typing ctrl-0 (zero) will bring it back to 100%. If that doesn't help, you'll need to look through the settings on Yahoo and see if your inadvertent change was made there somewhere.