Question: 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 1280×1024, change to 1024×768. 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.
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.
In my case, the text of the email, especially if I try to print it out, is too small.
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Good 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.
God bless you!! ;-)
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step by step appears easy enough to follow, I will give it a go
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@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.