Outlook 365 won’t keep display font settings

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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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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

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

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