Default font color

[Leslie_Holman]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Email Client: pop

If this is basic I am sorry, however, I have tried for the past week to figure out how to make the default font color when I send an e-mail, blue.

I figured out how to set the default font style and size but there doesn't seem to be anywhere that I can designate the default color. I know that I can change it by clicking it on the task bar, which is what I currently do.

Is there a way to change it so it defaults to blue rather than black. I think I have tried everything I can think of.

Thank you very much.

Leslie

 

[Leslie_Holman]

It's funny, that never occurred to me. I have been using Navy as my default color (in Outlook as I was a PC person until a week ago) for years and no one ever mentioned it.

FWIW - I use Navy rather than one of the lighter blue colors. I think it is a tad easier on the eyes and I like the way it looks. Sometimes I think I am a formatting nerd.

Leslie

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Email Client: pop

If this is basic I am sorry, however, I have tried for the past week to figure out how to make the default font color when I send an e-mail, blue.

I figured out how to set the default font style and size but there doesn't seem to be anywhere that I can designate the default color. I know that I can change it by clicking it on the task bar, which is what I currently do.

Is there a way to change it so it defaults to blue rather than black. I think I have tried everything I can think of.

Thank you very much.

Leslie

first, there is no way to set a default font colour.

Please send feedback to Microsoft on this. Use the 'Send Feedback' item
under the 'Help' menu in any Office application. The more people that
request such a feature the more likely it is to be implemented.

Secondly, while I agree in general with JRs comments about colours being
harder to read for some people (especially the elderly, who usually
prefer high-contrast) there is an additional special problem with the
blue colour.

it has been a long established convention in many mac mail clients that
quoted text is displayed in a blue colour to make it easily
distinguishable from the new text added to a message. Often other
colours are used for multiple levels of quoting (entourage will do this
as well). This makes you choice of blue for original text even more
problematic than just the readability issue!

 

[Leslie_Holman]

Thank you for this information. I feel better knowing that if nothing else, it wasn't my own inability to find the default.

I will absolutely make a request that we be able to set a default color for fonts.

Since I am new to Mac I had no idea about the quoted text being in blue. I suppose that that would make it more difficult to distinguish new text. If that is the case, then yes blue would not be a great choice.

I am still not convinced that dark blue is harder on the eyes but I also know that I am sometimes resistant to change.

I don't love plain text and I always change it to HTML but I never really thought about the fact that it might be easier on the recipient to get something in plain text. Perhaps I better add self-centered to resistant to change.

I very much appreciate the help you have both given me.

Thank you. A lot.

Leslie

 

[Diane Ross]

I don't love plain text and I always change it to HTML but I never really
thought about the fact that it might be easier on the recipient to get
something in plain text. Perhaps I better add self-centered to resistant to
change.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Plain Text or HTML

Set Messages as Plain Text or HTML
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/get_started/plain_html.html>

Email is a means of communicating and it's your words that actually count,
not how they look.

 

[Leslie_Holman]

Thank you for the link on HTML v plain text.

To be honest I don't know much about it. I will come in handy. I have actually wondered about it.

I agree that content is what it is ultimately the most important thing but I do also think that how something looks is also important as well, because the easier it is on the eyes and to read the more likely someone is to tackle the words.

I never realized how much time I actually spend thinking about formatting.

Switching to a new computer means setting new defaults etc and thus you do end up thinking about it in depth.

FWIW - I am loving the Mac.

Thank you again for all the assistance. It helped, a lot.

Leslie

 

[Diane Ross]

I agree that content is what it is ultimately the most important thing but I
do also think that how something looks is also important as well, because the
easier it is on the eyes and to read the more likely someone is to tackle the
words.

If you use stylized text, try to use the concept that less is more.

Cheers and Welcome to Mac! I have a few tips and links posted to help new
users here:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/new2mac/index.html>