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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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CVD_865, Thank you for this, it worked. Unbelievable that Microsoft couldn't post this information in the first place.
Has this been changed? It's an extraordinary problem of accessibility! I struggle to read the text in the preview pane. I know that I can zoom on each individual message, but that is clunky. It's extraordinary to me that I can change the font size of the column headers, the first line or two under the header, but not the important part of the message: the email message itself.
It didn't work for me at first either, but I was RIGHT-clicking, and that just shows a completely different dialog box. Try "normal" clicking (left-click) and see if that works.
I found a workaround double-click on a message that will be opened as a "full" window to read the message click on Zoom change the percent to your desired value and click on Remember my preference.
this should change and remember the zoom level for the reading pane
The problem is that this workaround doesn't change the core issue which is setting the font. This is my problem, so I can either have e-mails that I can't properly preview, or e-mails that are at a bad zoom level to read easily.
This is core accessibility and MS should have sorted this out or be getting hauled over the coals by governments and accessibility groups.