Setting default font for email

[wcweeks]

I can't seem to get Windows Mail to accept my setting of a preferred font for
the default. I am setting Ariel, but when a go to enter text in an email it
uses the first font on the font list.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Wayne

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Font for what?
Reading email, composing email, or actual sent email?
The latter is only affected by using HTML rather than plain text.

 

[wcweeks]

Composing email.

Font for what?
Reading email, composing email, or actual sent email?
The latter is only affected by using HTML rather than plain text.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You should be able to choose the compose font under Tools, Options,
Compose, Font Setting.

If you have installed the IE8 beta, it will disable font settings.

 

[wcweeks]

I have it set as you indicated. It is set to Ariel, but still when I compose
an email is uses Academy Engraved LET. I am using IE7, not the IE8 berta.
Wayne

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I have no idea why that would happen. Perhaps some of your fonts are
corrupted or unavailable, and the system is substituting a different font

 

[Buzz]

My preferred font in outgoing mail , comic sans serif, is occasionally
changed to mimic the e-mail to which I am replying! Frustrating, and when I
re-set it it reverts as soon as I start typing! Just another quirck in
Windows Mail

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Go to Tools, Options, Send, uncheck "Reply to messages using the
format in which they were sent."