If you want to make adjustments to that see: Enlarge font in the Reading Pane. This is not uncommon At work we use outlook and are advised that company emails should be sent in Arial size 10 font, for the sake of uniformity. Note 2: This font setting applies to the Message Preview font and not the Reading Pane font. Unlike the whole resume font debacle, though, this time we can actually lay the blame or at least, some if somewhere else: The default settings for most email clients. I get emails in all sorts of different fonts, calibri, arial, helvetica etc which is obviously because they have set their preferred font in outlook or whatever it is they send email with. Note 1: To enable the Message Preview feature in Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016 use: View-> Message Preview. After installing the latest updates, you might even already see your custom font settings from Outlook 2010 or previous if those settings were still maintained. View tab-> View Settings-> Other Settings…-> section: Message PreviewĪdjusting the Message Preview font has made its return in Outlook 2013.ĭefault Message Preview font in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016.Ĭustom Message Preview font in Outlook 2013. View tab-> View Settings-> Other Settings…-> section: AutoPreview So hopes are high that it’ll have a Webkit-based rendering engine and will render HTML emails well. The new email client will be based on current Outlook web apps. View-> Arrange By-> Custom…-> Other Settings…-> section: AutoPreview In January, Microsoft announced their One Outlook vision to replace the desktop clients with one client that works everywhere starting sometime in 2022. Modifying the font properties can be done via the View Settings dialog

You can also use this feature in Outlook 2016 but unfortunately, you can’t modify the color.

The feature has been reinstated since the October 2015 update for Outlook 2013 ( KB3085579 – Outlook 2013 build number.

In Outlook 2010 and previous, you could set the font for the AutoPreview text but this feature was initially missing in Outlook 2013 when it turned into the Message Preview feature which allowed you to configure how many lines are being shown. I have the Message Preview enabled in Outlook and I find the small greyed out text a bit hard to read.

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