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The font size is way too small. I can temporarily increase the font size for each email I read or write. I can't find any setting or instructions online to permanently increase the font size.
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Tried that. That would be nice if the slider isn't grayed out - useless. I'll contact my IT dept about it. Had this problem with excel before and then it magically started working one day (no longer grayed out). Outlook bug?
There IS a permanent way to increase the size in your reading pane.
In the lower left corner of Outlook, manually increase the size using the slider. Once you're at your desired zoom, click on the number (e.g., 120% or whatever you've selected) at the far bottom right. A dialogue window will appear. Click "Remember my preference" and then click OK.
Respectfully, it is completely unacceptable that this design change, that literally dramatically reduces user productivity, was implemented! Are the designers not cognitive of your corporate users?! What has to happen to put this functionality back into the app? Good design does not deploy features that make the user experience noticeably worse! :(
For those following the thread, I did try the accessibility / stationery and font change, but not seeing a difference. Go to FILE (scroll down to OPTIONS), go to Accessibility - go to Stationery and Fonts - select composing and reading plain text messages. You can select font and size there, but I'm not seeing a difference yet after increasing it. Maybe I need to restart computer, not sure. But I think there should be something added on to this screen for just Reading emails.
This is not good enough.
It is not acceptable to have to manually adjust the size of each email all day long. I use Outlook all day, 100 is the lowest number of emails I receive every day. I also pay to use Microsoft Office 365 every year. Google Workspace allows to change how I view emails, why can't Outlook do the same in 2023 when "User Experience Engineer" is literally a job position now?
Given that I pay for this service, please change it.
Thanks