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October 11th, 2008 23:00
Default row font won't hold.
Hello, again Dell Forum.
I'm using Dell Inspiron 6000; Windows XP; Microsoft Outlook 2003. I changed the factory default row font in Microsoft Outlook to a l2pt. Verdana.
Roughly half the time when new emails come in, they come in using factory default. The other half of the time, they come in with the new default I set.
When they come in with the factory default, I switch from Inbox to Sent, then back to Inbox, and presto, the font is now the 12pt Verdana I want it to be.
I have been unable to determine exactly when the new emails show up as I want them to and when they show up in the factory default font. My best guess is that they show up in the smaller font when the screensaver has come on and been on for an hour or more without my touching the computer.
Anyone know why this happens? And, more importantly, how to prevent it?
Squirrelly
Mary G
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October 12th, 2008 19:00
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October 12th, 2008 20:00
Okay. When I have MO open in Inbox. All the emails listed are in a particular font. The default font, the one the program is set to when it is installed, is an 8 pt font. Tahoma, as I recall. It's very tiny for these aging eyes. So I l right click anywhere in the gray row at the top where it says "To," "From" and so on. In the dropdown menu I choose "Customize Current View." When that opens, I click on "Other Settings." The first listing is "Column Font." This is for the "To", "From," etc. Right belowthat is "Row Font." I click on that. Then I change the "Row Font" from 8 pt Tahoma to 12 pt Arial, or Comic Sans, or whatever other font I choose. Then I click okay, get out of the dialogue boxes and the row font--meaning the font and the size of the font for each of the emails listed in my inbox are changed to what I want them to be.
This change in no way effects [or affects??] any program other Microsoft Outlook. Further, it only effects the precise folder from which you make the changes. Each folder has to have its column and row fonts changed individually.
They stay this way. If I'm working in Microsoft Outlook, and a new email message comes in, it comes in listed in the font I have changed the row font to. But sometimes, after I've been away from the computer for several hours and the screensaver is up over the Inbox, when I "dismiss" the screensaver and get the Inbox showing, all the new emails have come in using Tahoma 8 pt instead of what I have changed the default to.
If I then click on any other folder [Sent, Saved, Draft, etc.] and then immediately switch back to Inbox, the row font is now what I want it to be; the larger font I changed it to earlier.
Hello, Mary G.
First, thank you for responding to my query.
As I said in my first post on this subject, I'm not certain exactly how long I have to be not using the computer before it reverts to the factory default row font. And I sure as heck don't understand why, just by going from Inbox to Sent, then back to Inbox, the font resets itself to what I want it to be.
And now my apologies for being too cryptic in my first post. I was only trying to be as consise as possible because I am well aware that most computer geeks, gurus and geniuses tend to grow impatient with the kind of lengthy, imprecise explanations of our problems that most of us non-technical minded users tend to give. In short, I had thought that everyone posting answers to problems on this site would have known immediately what I meant by "Row Font" since it is the precise term Microsoft Outlook 2003 uses.
So sorry to have offended you.
Squirrelly