How do I change the default font for incoming mail messages?

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Hi Lori! I have the same problem of how to change the default font size for
the incomig messages in outlook 2007. Did you find some help?
 
The font on incoming messages is set by the sender, not the recipient.

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After furious head scratching, Inam asked:

| Hi Lori! I have the same problem of how to change the default font
| size for the incomig messages in outlook 2007. Did you find some
| help?
 
I was able to do this for the Inbox Pane, but I would also like to increase
the font in the Mail Folders Pane --- anyone know how to do this?

Cabo4Me
 
I was able to do this for the Inbox Pane, but I would also like to increase
the font in the Mail Folders Pane --- anyone know how to do this?
Click to expand...

The size of the font for the folder names in the Navigation Pane is controlled
by the Windows theme you've chosen.
 
you are partly right I don't have a fix for it but I ran a test. I had a
friend on his laptop (xp that uses 2003) send me and to another friend
running 2003 an html with no graffic in 20 pt font to both of us when it got
downloaded to my vista computer with office 2007 it was 8 pt font and theres
was fine. I have been getting html emails from lists i am on and when they
have no grafics they have there font made smaller. so no it is not just the
sender
 
I helped someone at my office with a similar problem-- high resolution
monitor made the text/font size very small in the column that lists the
messages in your inbox. I played with Outlook for a long time trying to
help, and I found a way to fix it for Outlook 2003.

On the left side ("Navigation Pane"), single-click "Inbox" > single-click
any email > Up top on the "Menu Bar" click "View" > Click "Arrange By" >
Click "Current View" > Click "Customize Current View" > On the pop-up, click
"Other Settings" > Click "Row Font" > Select any font, style, and size you
want!

Hope this helps--I worked hard to figure it out!
 
Somehow I changed the incoming font and I can't change it back. I don't know
what I did but now when the mail comes in it is inthe same size and font as
mine and it is distracting. Can you help me

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FoFo's instructions only help with the Inbox pane of Outlook. They are
useless for the text of the message itself when opened in a separate window,
which is what I take to be the initial question of the thread.

Betty said:
When I opened my email, the incoming mail was like a font size 8 but the
message itself, was a 10 or 12. Because that is the way I had it set but
didn't know how to set the incoming mail. I followed Fofo instructions and
now when the top pane tells me there is new messages, they are set at the
number I choose, which is a 10. If the sender of that message, had real bad
vision, and used a 14 or bigger font size, it would not come into my mail box
as a 14. It will come in with the font size that I selected. Otherwise, if I
have 10 people on my mailing list and each one of them has their font set at
10 different font sizes, then my incoming mail would come in as 10 different
sizes. Fofo's instructions does work. Betty
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This is just what FoFo had (although he mistakenly put "Arrange By" in the
string of commands; it doesn't belong there). What I, and, I think, most of
the folks having problems here are after is a way to increase the size of the
font INSIDE THE MESSAGE ITSELF. I know that a couple of MVPs have said that
the user sets this, but I think that there should be an option to set the
text within messages either at a recipient-defined optimal or at a minimum
size.
 
This is just what FoFo had (although he mistakenly put "Arrange By" in the
string of commands; it doesn't belong there).
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The instructions are correct for Outlook 2003 as the Current View menu is in
the Arrange By menu there.

There are a couple of ways to alter the size of the message text when
reading as well.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/67
 
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