You cannot change the default color for composing Mail; it's always black. After you're done composing, you can select the text and change the color, but it still won't be the default color, and there's no assurance that your recipient will see the color at all, since each mail client is different. In Outlook 2003, use Choose Font. For When composing a new message, When replying and forwarding, and When composing and reading plain text. In Outlook 2003, if stationery is set as the default under Use this stationery by default, the font specified in it may override the font you have just chosen.
Your Outlook inbox can quickly turn into an unmanageable mountain of seemingly ceaseless messages. The further behind you fall and the more mail that piles up, the more likely you are to miss a crucial correspondence. Microsoft graciously makes it relatively simple in Outlook 2016 for Windows to add color and font customizations to message senders, to make sure you never miss an email from your boss or manager, for example. How to customize incoming Outlook messages with color and font. Click the View option from the tabs that run horizontally along the top of your Outlook screen. (It's the fifth tab from the left.). Click View Settings at the top of the View tab.
(It's the second option from the left and looks like two gears.). A box labeled Advanced View Settings: Compact appears. Click to select the Conditional Formatting option.
A new box appears, and it shows a list of existing default mail rules, including one for unread messages that automatically bolds unread mail and another for expired mail that marks those messages with strikethrough text. (You can disable the default rules, or any others you may have created, by removing the check marks from the corresponding boxes.). To create a new Outlook mail rule, click the Add button. For this tutorial, we'll create a new rule to change the font style and color of messages from one specific sender, your boss.
(You can also change the actual font and the text size.) In the Name: field, type some descriptive text that will help you remember the purpose of this specific rule. Click Font.
Click Color and choose you shade of choice. Click Font style, and then pick the style you want. You then return to the Conditional Formatting box, where you should next click Condition.
In the.From. field type your boss's email address or her name exactly as it appears on messages you receive from the Boss Woman. (It can be a good idea to use the email address instead of the name here, to make sure you enter the right text.).
You can further customize this rule using the Search for word(s): and In: fields. For example, if you only want to change the color and font style of message that include the word 'deadline' in the subject line, you could enter 'deadline' in the Search for word(s): field and 'subject field only' in the In: box. Checking the. Where I am box and choosing one of the following options: the only person on the To line, on the To line with other people or on the CC line with other people lets you set more granular filters for your rules. You can also use the.More Choices.
and Advanced tabs in the Filter box to further customize Outlook mail rules. When you've set all the filter options you want, click OK to confirm them. Once again, click OK on the Conditional Formatting box. Finally, return to your inbox by clicking OK one more time on the Advanced View Settings: Compact box.
From now on, when you receive messages from your boss, and if they meet the various conditions you sent for color-coded messages, those correspondences will stand out in your busy inbox. You can set as many rules as you want, with varying levels of complexity, and they just might save you from a missed deadline — and spare you a potential tongue-lashing or two. For more Outlook tips and tutorials, check out:. This post may contain affiliate links. See our for more details.
Outlook for Office 365 for Mac Outlook 2016 for Mac Outlook for Mac 2011 Outlook 2019 for Mac Change the text size of the sidebar, message list, and reading pane (.This feature requires macOS 10.11 and later.) You now have the ability to increase the display size of the sidebar (1), mail list (2), and reading pane (3) text. Go to Outlook Preferences Fonts.
Move the slider left or right. Change the font size temporarily for messages To temporarily increase or decrease the font size of messages:. Select a message from your Inbox or other folder, including Sent and Drafts. Select Format Increase Font Size or Decrease Font Size. The changes will be applied to all mail in the selected folder, or subfolder. However, if you navigate to a mail in another folder or subfolder, you will lose your changes.
For a more permanent solution to change the font size, you can. Note: Incoming HTML messages often have font styles and font sizes applied to the text. The default font and font sizes that you select will not affect the formatting of these incoming messages. Choose a default font To change the default font for incoming and outgoing messages:. Select Outlook Preferences Fonts. In the Default fonts for composing messages section click the Font button next to the composition style you want to edit. For example, click Font next to New mail to select a default font for new messages, or next to Reply or forward to set a font for outgoing messages.
On the Font tab, choose the default Font, Font style, Size, Color & Underline, and Effects. On the Advanced tab, adjust default character spacing and typography. Click OK to save the changes. Repeat steps 2 through 5 for each composition style you want to edit. Change the text size when composing an email You can make your text larger or smaller when composing an email message. This is a temporary setting that's only used during the compose phase. The font returns to its default size once you send the message.
Place the cursor in the body of the email message you're composing. Select Format Zoom. Select a zoom percentage or enter a custom percent.