XP & Outlook 2002 Font Issues

[Billy]

My new XP software is causing MS-Outlook 2002/XP fonts to behave
differently. I have most of my task notes typed in Arial, which I believe is
a proportionate font. In W2k, these notes were formatted proportionately.
Now, in XP, they are not and scattered around the screen.

How do I fix this?

 

[Vagabond Software]

Are you sure this is not an Outlook setting? I had to configure my Outlook
font settings independently of the OS.

Also, I'm certainly no authority on the subject, but Arial is indeed a
proportional font. My understanding is that each character of a
proportional font does not necessarily take up the same amount of space.
For example, if you open WordPad or even your Outlook Tasks and type the
word 'seven' and the word 'eight' right under it, the word seven will be
longer than the word eight even though they both have five characters.

Now switch to Courier New, which is a fixed-width font. The word 'seven'
and the word 'eight' will occupy the same amount of space and will "line-up"
character-for-character if placed one under the other on the screen.

So, you'll have to reformat your base Task form in outlook to use either a
proportional font or a fixed-width font as desired.

I hope that helps without being too long-winded.

- carl

 

[Billy]

Are you sure this is not an Outlook setting? I had to configure my Outlook
font settings independently of the OS.

Also, I'm certainly no authority on the subject, but Arial is indeed a
proportional font. My understanding is that each character of a
proportional font does not necessarily take up the same amount of space.
For example, if you open WordPad or even your Outlook Tasks and type the
word 'seven' and the word 'eight' right under it, the word seven will be
longer than the word eight even though they both have five characters.

Now switch to Courier New, which is a fixed-width font. The word 'seven'
and the word 'eight' will occupy the same amount of space and will "line-up"
character-for-character if placed one under the other on the screen.

So, you'll have to reformat your base Task form in outlook to use either a
proportional font or a fixed-width font as desired.

I hope that helps without being too long-winded.

- carl

believe

Changing the fonts to a more proportionate font did work, but does not
explain why this font appeared proportionate in a W2k environment. Can you
tell me why that might have been?

 

[Vagabond Software]

Did you re-install Outlook after installing Windows XP? Perhaps you had
already made all the font adjustments for Outlook on your old Windows 2000
system.

If you did not re-install Outlook after installing XP, then the only thing I
can think of is that XP over-wrote some configuration files, but I just
don't know if that is a reasonable conclusion. Even Outlook Express, which
would get re-installed and updated with a new OS isntallation uses custom
settings independent of Office Outlook.

Personally, I've had to redo my Office Outlook settings at each OS
installation since the days when Outlook was a free download from Microsoft.

- carl

 

[Billy]

Did you re-install Outlook after installing Windows XP? Perhaps you had
already made all the font adjustments for Outlook on your old Windows 2000
system.

If you did not re-install Outlook after installing XP, then the only thing I
can think of is that XP over-wrote some configuration files, but I just
don't know if that is a reasonable conclusion. Even Outlook Express, which
would get re-installed and updated with a new OS isntallation uses custom
settings independent of Office Outlook.

Personally, I've had to redo my Office Outlook settings at each OS
installation since the days when Outlook was a free download from Microsoft.

- carl

either

I installed Outlook on a *new* XP system, then copied my .pst file into the
app.

 

[Vagabond Software]

I installed Outlook on a *new* XP system, then copied my .pst file into the
app.

Ah, I don't believe the *.pst file contains any user-interface configuration
information, such as the font settings, new form designs, etc...

- carl