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How to Change Font in the Messages You Send

You can change font settings in a message easily enough, and you can change the default fonts that Outlook uses almost as easily.

But those changes only affect messages that are in HTML or Rich Text format. If you are sending messages in Plain Text format, the recipient controls the font that they see, not you.

To change the default fonts for HTML or Rich Text formatted messages, follow these steps:

  1. In the Outlook main menu, click Tools, then Options to open the Options dialog box.

  2. On the Mail Format tabbed page, in the Stationery and Fonts section, is the Fonts button. Click that to open the Fonts dialog box.



    Change message fonts here.

  3. In the Message Fonts section of the dialog box, select the fonts you want to use when composing a new message and when replying to or forwarding a message.

  4. While you're here, you can also select the font you will see when composing and reading Plain Text formatted messages. This is for your own convenience (my eyes aren't as good as they used to be!) and doesn't affect what the recipient of Plain Text messages sees, but while you're here, you might as well adjust this too.

  5. Click OK when done, then Apply or OK in the Options dialog box to put the changes into effect.



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