Thanks so much for the help I finally got things back to so called normal .
I know enough to get myself in trouble but not enough to get out of trouble.
You hit the nail on the head with your instructions.
Thanks

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Fran


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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| I'm not sure exactly which text you are talking about.
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| To fix the font for list of messages, Select: Control Panel, Display,
| Appearance (Advanced). In the Item drop down list, select Icon. Then
| change the font and font size for Icon. A common font is MS Sans Serif
| at a size of 8. Then Click Apply and OK. Restart the program.
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| However, that would apply to both mail and news folders.
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| To save the default Font and size that you see while reading/composing
| plain text messages, you need to go into Tools, Options, Read, Fonts and
| select the desired Proportional Font and size for Western Alphabet and
| click Set as Default. To use a fixed width font, you need to select
| such a font (e.g. Courier New) under the Proportional Font drop down
| list (doesn't make much sense, but that's how it works). (Plain text
| does not send font information. So what the recipient sees is not based
| on what you used while composing.)
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| Again this applies to both mail and news. But it only applies to plain
| text messages. For HTML format messages, the sender controls the font
| (unless you select Tools, Options, Read, Read All messages in plain
| text). The only difference for mail and news would be that HTML is more
| common in mail than news.
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| Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
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| "Ray &Fran" wrote in message
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| I have a question re the font size and style for my outlook express .
| When I
| open outlook express the print for the text of the regular folders is
| different than the font style and size for my newsgroup messages and
| names .
| How do I make everything the same or can I . What font settings do
| most
| people use with outlook express
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