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Font Size Keeps Changing

11 years ago

Hello,

I am on a Dell laptop running Windows 7 Home, and I.E.11, I have Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 for email.

My font size for writing, replying for emails is Comic Sans 12. I had to reinstall my Outlook and when I redid my information for the font I entered Comic Sans 12 in all fields, I then clicked apply and started to compose an email. All was fine for a couple messages, but on about the 3rd one I noticed that the font size became at least a 14. I checked all the usual settings, but all was as I had chosen. Now what's even stranger is that when I receive a reply to my email and my message is included the size is normal (12). It only seems to be when I am compsing it.

Does anyone have an idea what may be wrong and how to correct it.

Thanks so much.

BarbB

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mikie_gw
11 years ago
Maybe you zoomed that window one notch by accident. When you see what looks like your size 14's try the key combo Ctrl+0 --(Zero)
barbb
Original Author
11 years ago
Hello Mikie,

I am so sorry for not replying, For some reason I thought I'd be notified by email if there were any replies and when I didn't receive a notice, I just forgot,

Well, you were 100% correct. That was/is exactly what is happening. I clicked the spyglass and sure enough it said "200" so everytime it happens, and yes it still does, I just click "100" and it's back to normal.

Thanks so much for your reply,.

Barbb
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