How Do You Fix Windows Mail Or Outlook Express Not Letting You Change The Text Size?
How to Fix Windows Mail or Outlook Express Not Letting You Change the Text Size Tuesday January 27, 2009 Bird! In American slang circa 1899, “bird” meant anything great, cool and accomplished — like a person able to dunk a golf ball with little effort. Now, Windows Mail resetting your font every time you change it is not birdie at all; that’s bogey — or “bugging”. Tweak a setting in Internet Explorer, though, and the bird returns: ›› Your Windows Mail or Outlook Express stubbornly refuses to accept your changing the text size? Whatever you try, it jumps back to what it deems to one and only correct size? Here are the IE settings that let you change
Sure: Windows Mail and Outlook Express don’t have personalities the way humans do, they don’t know moods and they don’t think in much the same manner animals do. But: Windows Mail and Outlook Express can appear very stubborn. They can, for example, refuse to accept your changing the font size. No matter what you pick from the pop-down menu, the size jumps back to, say, 10 pt. Fortunately, this annoying and puzzling behavior can be explained as an unfortunate side-effect of Internet Explorer accessibility options — and can be corrected. Fix Windows Mail or Outlook Express Not Letting You Change the Text Size To bring back the ability to change the text size in Windows Mail or Outlook Express: • Close Windows Mail or Outlook Express if running. • Open Internet Explorer. • Select Tools | Internet Options from the menu. • In IE 7, hold down the Alt key to show the menu. • Go to the
