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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?
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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Ask Leo! - How can I make the text on my screen larger?
Article C2451 - October 31, 2005
Your article addresses the screen display text size. I am having problems with the text size as printed. In general the headings are an OK size, but the body of the message is bigger--too big. How do I change it? Thanks.
Posted by: Tim Elder at August 2, 2006 10:49 AMIn my case, the text of the email, especially if I try to print it out, is too small.
Posted by: Albert at December 27, 2006 5:29 PMHow do I make my Yahoo email text size smaller - I just bought a 22" momitor.
Posted by: Tom Dragone at July 11, 2007 6:39 PMHow do I decrease the size of the text of my home page, as well as the email pages? Somehow, I was able to enlarge the font, but do not remember how I did that; so I can't reverse the problem. Thank you, Mary Anne Dolan
Posted by: Mary Anne Dolan at August 30, 2007 3:03 AMGood God. Thank you Leo, I accidentally changed the view size on my Outlook text and couldn't figure out how to fix it. That was driving me nuts.
Posted by: Amy at January 10, 2008 2:38 PMGod bless you!! ;-)
How do I change the text size when I print an e-mail message?
Posted by: J. Conway at July 31, 2008 10:18 AMthe size on my email text is too small. how do I change the print size
Posted by: Michael Cetro at November 4, 2008 6:42 AMI had the same problem with text being too small and changed the printer preferences back to "Factory Setting" and it resolved the problem with both a HP and a Dell printer.
Posted by: Ann at December 2, 2008 11:49 PMleo help me to solve my email. How do I decrease the size of the text on my email pages? Somehow, I was able to enlarge the font, butI can't reverse the problem. please help me it is annoying.
Posted by: ruperto at November 2, 2009 2:26 PM