Change font size in reading pane

[Kusanagi]

Hi, I have always had my IE font settings under View -> Text Size set to
"Smaller". I recently installed Outlook 2003 and I noticed that it is
overriding my IE settings. The reading pane in Outlook (for HTML emails, I
know that plain text can be adjusted under Options -> Mail Format -> Fonts)
is always set to "Medium" font size.

After reading the forums I found that if you right-click on the grey border
of an HTML message in the reading pane you can set the text size back to
Smaller. However, as soon as you change folders it reverts to "Medium" size.
The WORST PART OF ALL OF THIS is that now my IE browser keeps switching to
Medium size as well. Can someone help me fix this??? I've looked
everywhere in the Outlook help files, menu options, and forums for a solution
on making the HTML font size "Smaller" and making it stick. This is not a
negotiable item for me with the resolution and window layouts I use.

Thanks.

Darryl

 

[Vanguard]

Hi, I have always had my IE font settings under View -> Text Size set to
"Smaller". I recently installed Outlook 2003 and I noticed that it is
overriding my IE settings. The reading pane in Outlook (for HTML emails,
I
know that plain text can be adjusted under Options -> Mail Format ->
Fonts)
is always set to "Medium" font size.

After reading the forums I found that if you right-click on the grey
border
of an HTML message in the reading pane you can set the text size back to
Smaller. However, as soon as you change folders it reverts to "Medium"
size.
The WORST PART OF ALL OF THIS is that now my IE browser keeps switching to
Medium size as well. Can someone help me fix this??? I've looked
everywhere in the Outlook help files, menu options, and forums for a
solution
on making the HTML font size "Smaller" and making it stick. This is not a
negotiable item for me with the resolution and window layouts I use.

If formatting was really that important, the sender should be *attaching*
the document file containing the message. Otherwise, switch to reading in
plain-text format even for HTML mails as there is rarely a need to use HTML
in an e-mail (and adding glitz and other fluff doesn't qualify as a need,
only as a want). Picking small, medium, or whatever will have no effect if
the composer of the HTML-formatted e-mail decides to use a different font
size.

 

[Kusanagi]

Our company relies on HTML emails for signatures and other content embedded
(not attached) in the email messages (including spreadsheets, etc.). In this
case, switching all my emails, including the HTML ones, to plain text, just
to have them display properly is not really an option.

I'm not asking for a miracle here... every single mail software I've ever
used has the option to control HTML font sizes. I've used Eudora, and
Outlook Express for years until last month. Both of them support it. I
understand that for people sending email through Outlook 2003 they can
"override" the font sizes (which is annoying at best) but I'm talking about
controlling HTML font size for the other 93% of HTML emails I receive. Also,
to have the option to control HTML font sizes available in IE (a free
software), but to not have it in Outlook 2003 seems bizarre to me. And why
would Outlook 2003 use the same settings as IE, but screw up my IE font size
settings and make me manually put them back all the time?

Why does Microsoft give Outlook Express for free, but offer Outlook 2003 for
money with some features missing? The only reason I'm cornered into using
Outlook 2003 now is because we installed an Exchange server with Blackberry
BEZ 4.0 on it. I'm the only one left in our company (I'm the President) who
is not using Outlook 2003, I'm still on Outlook Express, because of this
frustrating display issue. I've got half a mind to tell my IT dept. to pull
the plug on Exchange/Outlook and find us a different option, but we really
want Blackberry functionality. If I'm having trouble right out of the gate
with something as simple and basic as displaying HTML messages in a certain
font size, (which is a feature even Outlook Express has), what will I run
into in the future? How much will this cutover really end up costing my
company?

Is there a registry setting somewhere where we can "hack" the font size to
be set to "smaller" and have it stick? Someone somewhere must be able to
help with this. I've got to believe that the whole Microsoft support
community won't grind to a halt on something this simple and basic. Please
help me out folks.