1. How To Increase Font Size Outlook
2. Changing Font Size In Outlook 2010
3. Outlook Change Folder Font Size

To change the font or font size for the column headers in your Inbox (like “From” and “Subject”), click Column Font, and then make the desired adjustment. To change the font or font size of the message subject lines in your Inbox, click Row Font, and then make the desired adjustment. Temporarily enlarge an email in the Reading Pane. If you want to change the appointments font in the Month view, please click the Font button in the Month section to specify the Font, Font style and the Size. If you want to change the appointments font in the Day and Week views, please click the Font button in the Day and Week section to specify the Font, Font style and the Size.

How to change the font color of incoming messages based on sender or subject in Outlook?

In your Outlook, sometimes, you may need to change the font size or color of your incoming emails which coming from some specific persons or the subject contains certain text to make these messages outstanding. In this article, I will talk about how to auto change the font size or color for these specific incoming emails.

On the View tab, in the Current View group, select View Settings, and then select Other Settings. Use the buttons to choose the fonts and sizes that you want to use. You might be interested to know more. Open a message and go to the Messages tab. Select Zoom, then use the up and down arrows to make the text larger or smaller. In the Reading pane, use the zoom slider or press Ctrl while turning the mouse wheel to increase the font size. If you receive emails with fixed font sizes, use a display lens such as the built-in Magnifier in Windows.

Change the font size or color of incoming emails based on sender or subject in Outlook

Normally, you can apply the Conditional Formatting feature to finish your task, please do as this:

1. Click View > View Settings, see screenshot:

2. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, click Conditional Formatting button, see screenshot:

3. Then, in the popped out Conditional Formatting dialog box, click Add button, and then enter a name for this new rule into the Name text box, see screenshot:

4. And then, click Font button in this Conditional Formatting dialog to go to the Font dialog box. In the Font dialog, please specify the font, font style, font size and color as you need, see screenshot:

5. After setting the font, please click OK button to return to the Conditional Formatting dialog box. Now, you should click Condition button.

6. And then, a Filter dialog box is popped out, under the Messages tab, type the email address that you want to change the font size or color of the incoming emails from into the From field, see screenshot:

7. At last, click OK > OK > OK to close the dialogs, from now on, when the emails coming from the specific sender you set, the font size or color of the emails will be changed as following screenshot shown:

Note: To change the font size or color for some specific emails which contain certain text in subject, you just need to select the subject field only from the In drop down list, and then enter the certain text into the Search for the word(s) drop down, see screenshot:

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How to change default font size in Reading Pane in Outlook?

It’s easy to adjust zoom lever to change font size in Reading Pane in Outlook. However, the zoom lever and font size will return to default when you switch to another email, folder, etc. Here, this article will introduce the workarounds to change the default font size (zoom lever) in the Reading Pane in Outlook.

Change default font size in Reading Pane in Outlook in Win 10

Please follow below steps to change the default font size in Reading Pane in Outlook in Windows 10.

1. On the desktop, right click at a blank place, and select Display settings from the context menu. See screenshot:

2. Now in the popping out Settings dialog box, please click the linked text of Advanced display settings at the bottom. See screenshot:

3. Now in the new popping out dialog box, click the linked text of Advanced sizing of text and other items at the bottom. See screenshot:

4. In the coming Display dialog box, please click the linked text of set a custom scaling lever. See screenshot:

5. Please specify a percentage from the scale to this percentage of normal size drop down list, and click the OK button.

6. Now you return to the Display dialog box, please click the Apply button to save the settings.

7. The Microsoft Windows pops out and asks you for signing out. Please click the Sign out now button to sign out your account.

When you sign in your account later, you will see the font size in the reading pane in Outlook are adjusted to the specified percentage permanently.

Note: This method will change not only the default font size in Outlook Reading Pane, but also all default font sizes of all dialog boxes in your computer.

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Change default font size in Reading Pane in Outlook in Win 7/8

If you are working in Windows 7/8, you can change the default font size in Reading Pane in Outlook as follows:

1. Go to the desktop, right click a blank place, and select Personalize from the context menu. See screenshot:

2. Now the Control Panel is opening. Please click Display at the left bar. See screenshot:

3. In the new Control Panel, please check Smaller, Medium, or Large option as you need, and click the Apply button. See screenshot:

Note: In windows 8, you need to check the Let me choose one scaling lever for all my displays options to show the Smaller, Medium, Large, and Extra Large options.

4. Now the Microsoft Windows dialog box comes out and asks you for logging off. Please click the Log off now button.

How To Increase Font Size Outlook

When you log in your windows account later, you will see the font size in the reading pane in Outlook are adjusted permanently.

Note: This method will change not only the default font size in Outlook Reading Pane, but also all default font sizes of all dialog boxes in your computer.

Change default font size in reading pane with Kutools for Outlook

If you have Kutools for Outlook installed, you can enable its auto zoom option to change the default font size in reading pane easily, no matter you are working in Windows 7, 8, 10, or others.

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Changing Font Size In Outlook 2010

1. In the main interface of Outlook, click Kutools > Options.

2. In the Options dialog, go to Zoom tab, tick the Enable auto zoom (Percent) in read, compose and reply window options, specify an auto zoom percentage, and click the OK button.

From now on, when you read emails in the Reading pane, the zoom will be adjusted to the specified zoom percentage automatically. See screenshot:

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Outlook Change Folder Font Size

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  @Chris Bordeman Hi Chris,
  Kutools will not change the zoom level in the mail interface of Outlook including the Reading Pane. While Kutools can change the zoom levels automatically when reading or composing emails in the Message window.
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  1. KuTools auto zoom doesn't work. Perhaps it doesn't work on the latest Office on Windows 10?
  2. I'm already zooming with system scaling, want to zoom the reading pane only, it's still very small.