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    WScopwriter
    AskWoody Plus
    November 2, 2022 at 2:20 am #2494295

    Owing to age and declining eyesight, I need to get Outlook to display in a larger font than the default setting, which is Segoe UI 10 point. By going to the menu under View| View Settings| Other settings| Column and Row font, I can reset the Column and Row font to 14 point Segoe UI, and the message list is nice and big so I can read it. The trouble is that the View setting resets every night at midnight. I can go back and make the same adjustment, but I’m doing it again the next day. How do I get Outlook to maintain the display settings I want?

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      AskWoody_MVP
      November 2, 2022 at 7:02 am #2494370

      It appears that this “feature” has been frustrating Outlook users for many years:

      Column Fonts Switch to MS Default at Midnight

      But the persistent “littleolady” claims to have found a solution which worked for her:

      I went into “View Settings” and then “Conditional Formatting” and changed those settings to match what I had done in “Other Settings” and then used Big or Bigger for the Font portion in those settings. That procedure worked on every computer I have and the problem no longer exists for me.

      Microsoft Office Outlook Fonts Change at Midnight

      • WScopwriter
        AskWoody Plus
        November 2, 2022 at 9:16 pm #2494603

        I’m marking this convo as “resolved,” hoping for the best. Thanks for the quick response.

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