The monitor resolution is increased, but the fonts are not. Anyway, it was easier and more comfortable for me to read emails in black-grey with a Courier-like font in a 70-character-wide terminal.
Fortunately, modern displays and operating systems offer options. Although the default doesn't quite fit the eye, it's easy to change the display font in Windows Mail or Outlook Express to a larger one.
Read mail in larger fonts in Windows Mail or Outlook Express
To read messages in a larger font in Windows Mail or Outlook Express:
- View | text size .
- Choose the font size you want.
A faster road to large fonts
A quick alternative is to move the mouse cursor over an open message or preview window , hold down Ctrl and scroll with the mouse wheel. Scroll up to decrease the font size.
With a little adjustment in Windows Mail and Outlook Express larger font to print the e-mail can you .
Read all mail in larger font in Outlook Express
To display all messages in plain text and relatively large font in Outlook Express , please do as follows:
- Make sure Outlook Express is set to use plain text only .
- Tools | Options... from the menu in Outlook Express.
- Go to the Reading tab.
- Font under the font ... Click.
- : Font size from the largest , make sure that (or any other size) is selected.
- OK , click.
- Now OK , click again.