A dialog box displays, warning you of that fact.
Click OK when you have made your changes.īecause we are applying the same font to all parts of the message list (sender's name, subject, date received, and size of each message), we are not specifying a condition. On the "Conditional Formatting" dialog box, click Add button to add a new rule.Įnter a name for the new rule - such as "Message List Font Size" - in the 'Name' edit box and then click Font button.Ĭhange the Font, Font style, and Size, and select other settings such as Effects and Color, as desired. On the "Advanced View Settings" dialog box, click Conditional Formatting button. To change the font settings for your message list, open Outlook and click on the View tab.Ĭlick the View Settings button in the "Current View" section of the View tab. Maybe you want to just change the size to make the font bigger or smaller, or change the font to one you like better.
Outlook 2016 allows you to customize the font used to display the sender's name, subject, date received, and size of each message in your message list. Top of Page Change the font size used in the message list In the future, return to this view by selecting Change View and selecting your saved view. Then type a name for the view, and specify which folders it can be used on and by whom. Once you have arranged the inbox to your liking, click Change View > Save Current View As a New View. The Layout options let you customize the Folder Pane and Reading Pane. The Arrangement options let you sort emails by Date, Subject and so on. You can configure any of these options either for the current folder or for all mailboxes.Ĭlick View Settings for options for customizing a view, such as adding columns or rearranging their order. Or, choose either 1, 2 or 3 to view that number of lines of the message text beneath its header. There are multiple preset views you can choose, like one that displays the most recent emails only.Īlso on the View tab, you can select Message Previews and choose Off to turn the preview off. To see Oulook's many customization options, click the View tab on the ribbon toolbar and choose Change View.
When you first open your inbox, a default view appears, but it doesn't have to look this way. Write your own rules for how messages appear.Redefine what marks an email as already "read".Change the font size used in the message list.Within each view, you can also move, add, remove, or re-size columns so that information is presented in the way that you want to see it. For example, to create more space to see your mail and calendar items, you can hide some elements. So, you want to set it up to support the way that you work. (He lost those with the create new profile try - but I didn't delete the old one so we could just easily switch him back since that wasn't the fix.You spend lots of time in Outlook. And I would rather not go with that option because he has a huge number of "customizations" he has set and would loose all those. Short of completely wiping and reinstalling office I am out of things to try. I have tried doing a quick repair, online repair, the troubleshooting tool from the Microsoft site and rebuilding his outlook profile and none have fixed it. The "apply view" feature seems to be broken or something. I tried to "apply view" from the inbox to the subfolders and that feature doesn't add it, now does it change any of the other setting to match the inbox. I am saying the view I subfolders doesn't even list columns.
#ADD HEADERS IN OUTLOOK HOW TO#
I know how to add columns once the row is there - that is not what I am asking. (Note this because his original surface laptop did NOT have this problem.) The user has the column headings on his "Inbox" folder but the row is completely gone on all other folders. Brand new surface laptop, loaded office 365 with outlook desktop application.