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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
Using New Outlook on Windows for professional communication and productivity
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Same problem. The ribbon text is huge and the email text is microscopic.
These constant, half-baked updates, arriving without warning or permission, that require users to waste time trying to figure out the problem and adjust are more than maddening.
Yes, that solve it...thanks so much for posting.
More information:
The problem occurs (at least for me) via the less-than-helpful shortcut "ctrl + scroll", when reading/composing an e-mail- this is what made the text so small in the first place (inadvertently pressing ctrl while scrolling).
In order to "fix" it, as the helpful post mentions, you need to open an existing e-mail in a separate window...not the reading pane nor a new/compose pane (double-clicking an email in the list does it for me). Then you will have the "Zoom" button in the ribbon, which allows you to reset to 100%.
Or, I suppose, you could also hold down "ctrl" again and scroll with the mouse/trackpad up/down to change the Zoom back...but after getting burned I personally don't want to touch that again!
(Microsoft- there are so many UI issues going on here; I would suggest someone take a look this whole process!)
Yes, that solved my problem. Thanks very much! Such as easy solution.
I found the issue was the system had reset the monitor display setting to 1920 x 1200 because i have high resolution monitors. Changed the setting to a lower setting and the magnification to 125% and it fixed almost everything.
Hi Lillian - Glad you found a solution to this quite inconvenient sudden tiny font in hotmail. A person recommended a different solution that worked for me. His was to open an email in a separate window. When you do that, a "zoom" option becomes available at the bar above the subject line. This option is not available if you open emails in the same window as the inbox. My magnification had somehow gotten changed to 50%, so I set it back to 100% and all is well. Richard