10th April
2007
A question popped up on The New Paperclip forums that I thought I might share with you all….
“How do you set the default font in Outlook 2007?”
It is easy in Word 2007… but in Outlook 2007 it is a little different… but here is how!
- Click “Tools” -> “Options”
- Select the “Mail Format” tab
- Click “Stationery and Fonts…”
- On the Signatures and Stationery dialog box that appears, ensure that you are on the “Personal Stationery” tab
- Click “Font…”
Then select your favourite font, style, size, colour, and effects… and then click OK half a dozen times 
Cheers,
TNP 
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First of all this is a great site. Thanks!
I am stumbling and bumbling at virtually every turn, but slowly figuring things out. However, I am FRUSTRATED with this default font/styles matter. In Outlook, I have tried, to the letter, these directions, and I cannot get Bold to hold as a choice, though it says that is an option. I am also “lost” with trying to get the same things to occur in Word. Help!
Yes, but how do you set the default font for the user in the .MSP & prevent them from changing it?
How can I prevent my signature from taking the reply font color?
thanks!!! I never would have found this on my own …
You cant set the fonts in the MSP or via group policy, its a “feature” of Office 2007. easiest way isto export the settinsg from the registry and eploy the reg file.
Scenario -
Reply to message font is set to blue. Signature font is set to automatic (black).
When you reply to a message, the signature also changes to blue. it doesnt do that in Office 2003. the only way i can see to fix that it, is to specify the font color in the signature, ie. change it from automatic, to black.
Ideas ?
Set the default font in Outlook 2007, how can I accomplish this with 500 users (group policy) ???
Hi
i have an application which will launch Microsoft Outlook with some attachment. When an email opens up with this attachments, fonts for these attachments are honoring default fonts (Arial) on Outlook 2007. however once you started to type some thing on the email body, it is using Times New Roman font.
i don’t know how to fix this problem. any one has any idea?
Sys admin resource for the original question…
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/desktopdeployment/bb395347.aspx
This seriously sucks! MS 2007 is a nightmare – totally screwing everything up and making it impossible to adjust things. I am not able to change fonts no matter what I do – I limited to two font types! This is total nonsense – there is no excuse for this level of incompetance on the part of MS!!!!
Thanks a lot, I was wondering how to this for almost one year till I found this. Great job!
how do i change the font for subject, date, etc for messages inbox view?
Fonts and Stationary are simple… but does ANYONE know how to change the default paragraph setting so it is not indented / hanging??? I have to change individually on each email! Please help if you can. Thanks!
Excellent! Have been cursing for ages as could not figure out how to do it.
11 Arial looks so naff!
Nice one and great site
this is a great help…hope to consult it soon for other problems
Hi nan barclay,
You can fix this by setting the default font in the browser.
HTH
-Aaron
Great, thanks!!!!
[...] & retain default font for emails? I don’t want Arial Set the default font in Outlook 2007 http://thenewpaperclip.com/2007/04/1…-outlook-2007/ — Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience – Windows System & Performance [...]
Ok, the stationery and fonts setting under options does not let me custimize the font for my recived mail. I want to make all my new mail bold and blue and all my read mail bold and black is this possible?
reply to megan’s issue:
to change setup for ‘unread email’”
rt click on ‘Arranged By’ tab in Inbox
Select ‘Custom…’ button
Inside Customize View: Messages dialog box, select Automatic Formatting, and then change Unread Mail options to your preferences.
This problem just showed up in my Outlook 2007 about 2 weeks ago. I set the default font as has been discussed in several posts – that’s simple enough. For simplicity sake, I set Arial 11 regular. But when I open for a new email message, it’s set on Body fonts. when I change the font in the message to Arial 11 regular, I get a cursor that I can barely see, and I certainly can’t read what I type. My contacts can’t read what I send tham either. HELP!!
it helped. Thanks TNP
Does anyone know how to reduce the font size in Outlook 2007 so that I can print more than three lines of information in the month calendar printout?
BRAVO …..
Thanks a Million.
Your instructions for setting the default font is lacking one necessary step. You must not have reset the Theme to one of the optional choices, e.g. Afternoon, Arctic, Axis, Technical, etc. If you do this, you cannot select your own default font, rather it will impose it on you.
Wow…tat was so easy. thanks A million..
Not sure if it’s the correct way to change the default font in Outlook 2007. If you open the .htm file in Word for the theme you are using and change the font, size, color and save it you will have it saved in Outlook as well. A few things I noticed. If I changed the font size, my default font changed to Times New Roman when I saved, but if I used the button on the toolbar to enlarge the font it stayed the same size I made it upon save and exit. Be sure to reopen the file once you’re done to be sure it saved your changes. If you don’t know which theme you are using, open up Tools > Options > Mail Format > Stationery and Fonts in Outlook. Then use Microsoft search to find that file. Once you have the name and location you can easily access it in Word. Hope this helps.
Attention: Frank
I had this same problem and have just figured out how to solve it. Open a new email click in the message body and then click on Format Text tab, then click on Change Styles button, select Style Set and choose Office 2007. Then all you need to do is click Set As Default and it should all be fixed. Hope this helps
thanks alot gr8 help
I need to change the fonts and signiture on 100+ users.
i have the format of the Signiture; this is simple to change all is involved is pasting new signiture folder at location:
C:\Docs+settings\application data\microsoft\signiture
now how do i do this with the fonts, or do i have to go round every PC and change the fonts?
Belinda, THANK YOU! You resolved my issue with the font changing from that which I had specified in my signature files!
Create and run a batch file with this information:
rem Set Outlook 2007 to arial font
c:
cd windows\fonts
ren SEGOE*.* SEGOE*.*.ORG
copy arial.ttf SEGOEUI.*
copy arialbd.ttf SEGOEUIB.*
copy ariali.ttf SEGOEUII.*
copy arialbi.ttf SEGOEUIZ.*
Man, this one had me going in circles for a while but here is the solution (for anyone who has issues with setting the preview pane/default inbox view font size in Outlook 2007):
From Outlook 2007, go to View, then Current View, then Customize Current View. Click on “Other Settings”. From there, Choose your Column, Row & AutoPreview font & Font size!. Click Ok, then Ok. Problem solved. Hope this helps someone cut down the time researching this.
thanks it worked perfectly
Great going……….It worked fine……..Thanks a lot
how to change unread mail color for differentiate
In order to customize the fonts of the Inbox view in Outlook 2007:
1- Select the Inbox view
2- Tools / Customize
3- Then select Using Views
4- Customize Current View
5- Other Settings
hope it helps,
Gustavo
i have made an email newsletter in publisher but when i send it to outlook addresses it creates a huge gap in the middle of the email pushing a whole section to the bottom of the page how do i change this?????
Linda, thanks. We just got this “upgrade” at our office 8/2010 and the microscopic fonts were driving me nuts. Changed all default fonts [there are a ton] and finally the e-mails in my inbox are readable.
Thanks a lot…
The composer box in my outlook 2007 automatically changed the view to be so micro tiny that it is frustrating. People receiving it receive it in the right size but I can’t view it properly while typing… Can anyone help?
Repeat -
You must not have reset the Theme to one of the optional choices, e.g. Afternoon, Arctic, Axis, Technical, etc. If you do this, you cannot select your own default font, rather it will impose it on you.
thanks!
my font in Outlook 2007 emails has suddenly become very small. I have gone to tool, mail font, etc. and can’t seem to find a solution to return my email font appearance to a size that i can easily read.
help
I have changed my font sizes but when I reply the size gets looks so small but shows it is at 12 font size. It is driving me crazy, why is this doing this???
Thanks,this really helpful.
In MS Outlook 2007, which we just got at my company…when I do Advanced Search and my results come up, can I set a Default somewhere that will always put the “To” Column in my results? Almost every time I do a search on my Inbox and Sent folders (which I do 90% of the time I do a Search) I have to go to Field Chooser and Click and drag the ‘To” in order to create a column! Thanks.
Changing font styles in Outlook 2007
Searching for on answer like ‘outlook 2007 change default font’ will give you trillions of hits, most of them questions and a number of answers (most of them not quit what you’re looking for).
The most common answer is: go to tools/options/mail format/Stationary and fonts, set the default font for new messages, and done!
The first thing you do after that you create a new mail. You got the new format, then press +n to use the default font and… the format is gone.
Then you spend the next hours to find another solution. I will now give you two options, read the rest of this message or change the search in goggle to “outlook 2007 change normalemail.dotm”, which will give you a number of thousand hits to read.
If you’re still reading here’s my findings. Outlook uses Word as an editor. The solution lies in Word, not in outlook! Word uses its own templates for blank documents, you probably heard about ‘normal.dot’ that’s the empty document template. When you create a new message in outlook it will actually start with an empty document in word and then set the font to the default that you have tried out from one of the solutions in the beginning of the document.
You need to find or create the template normalemail.dotm, open it, change the styles you prefer and save it. It should be in the same folder as ‘normal.dotm’.
Here are the steps:
1) Open Word
2) Bring up the open file dialog.
3) Choose word macro-enabled templates (.dotm)
4) Find and open the document normalemail.dotm. If you don’t find the file, create a new one by copy the normal.dotm.
5) Edit the font settings and save the document.
6) Create a new mail. Open up the menu ‘Format Text’ and looked at the styles and you will find that your changes now is available in outlook.
I know how to change the fonts but the size of the fonts has changed on it’s own and they are really small. Also, in Excel, the attachment line is gone and it showed up in the body. HELP
HELP… I cannot change the font on outlook. It seems to not have a “default” button. Is there anyway to get it back? I see it for other items but not on the font page?
I have set and reset the Mail Format Stationary and Fonts so many times I’m going crazy. It will stick for days, but invariably gets reset to default? I have no clue what event causes it to reset, it isn’t a reboot because that won’t always cause the loss. Do you have any ideas why I can’t “save” the different stationary and font settings?
I didn’t EVEN TRY to do it on my own. I typed into Google – “Outlook 2007 default font” and found your article – You made it a 2 minute process. THANK YOU!!
I have read several comments on different help sites where people have run into the following issue with Outlook.
Issue:
When I set the font for my outgoing new emails under Tools/Options/Mail Format/Stationery and Fonts/Personal Stationery/ and then try and send an email; the font is something other than what was set.
I have experienced the same issue and I believe I have a fix for this particular problem.
I believe this problem originates with anyone using HTML as their format for generating emails, and if they are using any Stationery Theme other than (No Theme). What happens is that Outlook pulls from a pre-generated html file that contains the theme information. This file has a pre-set font that for some reason does not get bypassed.
Example: I am using the Technical Stationery Theme. Outlook uses a file located on my C: drive as its starting place to set up the email. For me the file is located here
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\Technical.htm
When you open this file in Word you will notice that the file’s font is probably the font that you are defaulting to instead of the one you want.
The simple fix is to 1)Find the *.htm file that corresponds to your Stationery Theme 2) Open it so you can edit it 3) change the font in the htm file and then 4) save it with the new font.
If you do this process above I believe you will have a good chance of fixing or atleast getting what you want.
To find the *.htm file I simply did a search on my C: drive for Technical.* and then I opened/edited the file in Word.
Good Luck
I use two monitors with my computer, a small one to view the Outlook interface and a larger one to view and draft emails with. The larger one sits a distance and I would like the fonts to be larger as a default. I do not want to have to adjust each view. I am okay if the fonts are large on both screens. I am speaking by the way about the text of messages I have received, and those I am drafting to send out. Is this possible?