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Message Body Font in Outlook Suddenly Small
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Yesterday my Outlook updated to a new version. The text of the message body is so small it is useless in the preview pane. The subject line font is huge while the message body font is tiny. What do I have to do to make the fonts the same size? I have tried accessibility text font changes that make it worse. I tried large, medium and small in outlook and it has no effect on the message body font. Preview pane image included. Thank you for your support. I have Windows 11.
Regards,
Tim
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Anonymous
2025-02-21T16:05:59+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-02-17T21:55:56+00:00 Someone below posted the answer and I'm going to reply with it as well to give it a bump-
if you double click a message, you open a separate panel that has a zoom option up top. You can control the zoom there which ONLY controls the message windows -__-. This fixes the stupid issue.
Why do you need to open a new panel for this control if it affects the panel when it's closed? yeah no idea. bad UI.
Thank you!!
This message helped me!
So,
- double click a message
- click zoom in the separate panel
- put to 100%
- Curse MS for the bad UI
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Anonymous
2025-02-12T17:11:08+00:00 I was wrong, now every email I open is too small to read. My settings message format font is calibri 12. I just changed it to 20 and that didn't make any difference. What is going on? This is unacceptable.
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Anonymous
2025-02-12T17:00:16+00:00 That didn't help at all. Every time I open new message, the text is too small to read. When simply looking at messages, the text is fine. I haven't done anything to cause the outgoing messages to have small text. What can I try next?
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Anonymous
2025-02-06T20:38:27+00:00 I am having the same problem. You should not have to use the zoom option. At that point the rest of the screen is too large for other use.