increase font in body of windows mail message

[Katherine]

I am also having trouble with the font in Windows Mail, but it is the font
size in the body of the email that is the problem. My mother is legally blind
and we just got her a new computer running Vista and Windows Mail. We had the
font large enough in Outlook Express on XP SP2, unfortunately we can't
remember what we finally did to get it that way.


things we've already tried:
-Increasing the DPI. Once it gets to above 160%, option boxes are so big
that the OK and Apply buttons are off the bottom of the viewable screen when
the top of the box is at the top of the screen, so we really can't go any
higher than that.
-Increasing the font in Windows mail to 'largest' under View|Text size.
-Checking off 'Ignore font sizes specified on webpages' in Internet Explorer
under Tools|Internet Options|Accessibility.
-Increasing the size of the icon font in Appearance Settings box. Increasing
this font to 36 pt, Arial Black makes the message list in Windows Mail appear
large enough to view easily, but this setting does not affect the text size
in the body of an email. If we could get the text within the body of the
email to appear this large we'd be all set.

Do you know what controls that font size?

-Katherine

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Have you tried out the different fonts under Tools, Options, Read, Fonts?
Some are easier to read than others.

 

[Katherine]

Thanks, we're just so far away from a viewable size that changing fonts will
not help, we need to increase the font size. It is obvious this font is not
controlled by the front end of Windows Mail, I will try posting this to the
Vista community and the IE community. Surely there are other people with low
vision who have successfully moved to Vista.
Thanks for your help

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

I am also having trouble with the font in Windows Mail, but it is the font
size in the body of the email that is the problem. My mother is legally
blind
and we just got her a new computer running Vista and Windows Mail. We had
the
font large enough in Outlook Express on XP SP2, unfortunately we can't
remember what we finally did to get it that way.


things we've already tried:
-Increasing the DPI. Once it gets to above 160%, option boxes are so big
that the OK and Apply buttons are off the bottom of the viewable screen
when
the top of the box is at the top of the screen, so we really can't go any
higher than that.
-Increasing the font in Windows mail to 'largest' under View|Text size.
-Checking off 'Ignore font sizes specified on webpages' in Internet
Explorer
under Tools|Internet Options|Accessibility.
-Increasing the size of the icon font in Appearance Settings box.
Increasing
this font to 36 pt, Arial Black makes the message list in Windows Mail
appear
large enough to view easily, but this setting does not affect the text
size
in the body of an email. If we could get the text within the body of the
email to appear this large we'd be all set.

Do you know what controls that font size?

-Katherine

View | Text Size

 

[Levi]

Did you try tools, options, read, fonts & (with Western European as font
setting) the 3rd drop down box is font size & you can choose largest?