Having Fun With Fonts, Pt. 2
Outlook Fonts Are More Than the Words You Write
Character fonts in Word, Or Excel, or PowerPoint relate only to the words we write on the screen. In Outlook, however, we also have to consider how we want our fonts to look in the Message Lists. So in Outlook, we have many more steps to get all of the fonts to be All Our Fonts.
Step 1: Outlook calls how your Outlook is setup visually as "Views."
So we first click "View" from the Menu Bar. View is usually found
between
Send/Receive ad Help. When the Views Menu opens, click "Current
View."
From the Current Views Dialogue Box, Click "View Settings." This opens up the "Advanced View Settings" Dialogue Box.
Step 2: The Column font adjust the labels at the row headings. I will focus on the Row Font, which refers to your message headers.
Step 3: When you click the "Row Font" button, the by now very familiar by now Font Dialogue Box opens.
So now you set the Font Size for your Outlook message list.
This does not, however, change the composition of your messages.
Step 1: To change the font on the messages, we must first open up the Options Menu. Click File from the menu bar. Scroll way down to Options. The Options Menu opens up a very complex set of Dialogue Boxes.
Step 2: Select "Mail" from the
menu on the left.
Then select "Use stationary to
change fonts and styles, colors, and backgrounds" from the Mail
Menu. Click the Stationary and Fonts button. That opens the
Stationary Dialogue box.
Step 3: From Stationary Dialogue box:
a. Click the "New email messages" button. This will set the font for messages you compose. The Font Dialogue box opens. Select Your Font.
b. Click the "Replying or forwarding messages" button. This will set the font for messages that you reply to. The Font Dialogue box opens. Select Your Font.
c. If, like me, you only use Outlook in Plain Text, then click the "Composing or forwarding messages" button to set plain text fonts. The Font Dialogue box opens. Select Your Font.
Step 4: Step 4: The Font Dialogue box opens. Select Your Option.
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Confusions say
— It's the Character That Counts
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gerald Reiff