OL03: Changing font of "To", "From" and "Subject" lines

[Jonathan Ezor]

I just installed OL03 on a new laptop for a friend. She's having difficulty
reading the To:, From: and Subject: lines in the "Compose New Message" window,
and I can't find any options either within Outlook or WinXP itself to affect
those. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks. {Jonathan}

 

[Reb]

From the New Message Window:
Tools>Forms>Design this form. Right click To:btn. Select
properties.Click Font btn. and select font or size.
You will probably have to increase the button size also to
accomodate the new font size.

 

[Jonathan Ezor]

From the New Message Window:
Tools>Forms>Design this form. Right click To:btn. Select
properties.Click Font btn. and select font or size.
You will probably have to increase the button size also to
accomodate the new font size.

That works great, but it doesn't stick. I tell it to save the changes, but new
messages have the old fonts. {Jonathan}

 

[Reb]

You're right. Ok, I went back through the same process and
saved the changes when asked. I then noticed I had items
listed in the Draft folder. Opened the item and the
changed form was there ready to use. This seems like a
round about way to do it but without further research
that's all I can offer at this time, sorry. Will try to
find a way to save to the forms group.

-----Original Message-----

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

To save a new form, use the Publish Form option under Tools->forms. Take
the default location but give your form a unique name.

Open up the inbox, right click and select properties. Under the "use this
form when posting to this folder" use the dropdown to navigate to the
personal forms library. Select your form from there and okay out of the
dialog.

From now on, your form will be the default for new messages.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Reb <[email protected]> asked:
| You're right. Ok, I went back through the same process and
| saved the changes when asked. I then noticed I had items
| listed in the Draft folder. Opened the item and the
| changed form was there ready to use. This seems like a
| round about way to do it but without further research
| that's all I can offer at this time, sorry. Will try to
| find a way to save to the forms group.
|| -----Original Message-----
|| In article <[email protected]>, Reb says...
|||
||| From the New Message Window:
||| Tools>Forms>Design this form. Right click To:btn. Select
||| properties.Click Font btn. and select font or size.
||| You will probably have to increase the button size also to
||| accomodate the new font size.
|||| -----Original Message-----
|||| I just installed OL03 on a new laptop for a friend. She's having
|||| difficulty reading the To:, From: and Subject: lines in the
|||| "Compose New Message" window, and I can't find any options either
|||| within Outlook or WinXP itself to affect those. Anyone have any
|||| thoughts? Thanks. {Jonathan}
||||
|||| .
||||
||
|| That works great, but it doesn't stick. I tell it to save the
|| changes, but new messages have the old fonts. {Jonathan}
||
|| .

 

[Jonathan Ezor]

To save a new form, use the Publish Form option under Tools->forms. Take
the default location but give your form a unique name.

Open up the inbox, right click and select properties. Under the "use this
form when posting to this folder" use the dropdown to navigate to the
personal forms library. Select your form from there and okay out of the
dialog.

From now on, your form will be the default for new messages.

Milly,

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, when I follow your instructions, I
get the error message "You cannot create an item of this type in this folder."
Same is true when I try it in Outbox. Help! {Jonathan}