How to Make Outlook Email Text Bigger

Having trouble seeing that small default font of Microsoft Outlook emails? There are three ways of making Outlook email text bigger. The first includes increasing the text size of the outgoing email messages. The second includes increasing the text size of messages that are replied to or forwarded. The last includes making all the text of incoming emails larger as well.

Instructions

Composed Messages

1. Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Options." Click the "Mail Formats" tab and then click "Stationary and Fonts."

2. Find the "Personal Stationary" tab, then find and click the "Font" button located under the "New Mail Messages" heading. On the "Font" tab that appears, there will be a variety of options including changing the type of font, style, size and color.

3. Find the drop-down menu that is under the "Size" heading and select a bigger number. Click "OK" and the new setting will take place the next time a message is composed.

Replies or Forwarded Mail

1. Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Options." Click the "Mail Formats" tab and then click "Stationary and Fonts."

2. Find the "Personal Stationary" tab, then click the "Font" button that is located under the "Replying or Forwarding Messages" heading.

3. Find the drop-down menu that is under the "Size" heading and select a bigger number. Click "OK" and the new settings will take place the next time a message is replied to or forwarded.

Incoming Email Messages

1. Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Options." Click the "Mail Formats" tab and then click "Stationary and Fonts."

2. Look for the "Display Font" heading on the "Personal Stationary" tab and increase the size the size of the font by selecting a larger number. This will increase the text size for all plain text incoming email. However, it will not increase the text size of incoming HTML emails.

3. Set the option to read all incoming email as plain text if it is necessary to increase the text size of all incoming emails. To do this, go to "Tools", then click on "Options," then look for the button that says "Email Options" and click "Read all Standard Mail as Plain Text."

Tips & Warnings

• It is also possible to adjust the font of just the Reading Pane in Outlook. Simply press CTRL and use the mouse to scroll through the reading pane to zoom in and out. The sensitivity of the mouse will determine how quickly the font size will change and this may not happen instantaneously, but keep scrolling for a few extra seconds and the changes should then begin appearing.

• Amending the settings in Outlook to read all standard mail as plain text may limit the functionality of some HTML emails.

References

• Microsoft Support
• MS Outlook

Resources

• Microsoft Office