The “zoom” command can be tricky to find in Outlook. Just follow the instructions for your version:
Outlook 2010
- Click somewhere in the message body
- Select the “Message” tab (if it isn’t already selected)
- Click “Zoom”
- Select 100% (or your desired zoom level)
- Click OK
Outlook 2007
When reading email
- Click somewhere in the message body
- Select the “Message” tab (if it isn’t already selected)
- Click the “Other Actions” dropdown button in the “Actions” section
- Click “Zoom”
- Select 100% (or your desired zoom level)
- Click OK
When writing email
- Click somewhere in the message body
- Select the “Format Text” tab
- Click “Zoom”
- Select 100% (or your desired zoom level)
- Click OK
Outlook 2003
When reading email
- Click the “View” menu
- Point to “Text Size”
- Click “Medium” (or your desired zoom level)
When writing email
- Click somewhere in the message body
- Click the “View” menu
- Click “Zoom”
- Select 100% (or your desired zoom level)
- Click OK
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An Easier way is to press the Ctrl key and roll the mouse wheel. This will work for HTML emails.
True, but if you’re trying to reset your zoom level to 100% and you use the mouse wheel, it can be hard to tell whether or not you’re at 100%, unless you’re really good at eyeballing it.
Thanks soo much!!!
Thank you so much Sylvia …..this was a lifesaver for me today! K
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Such an easy fix when you know where to go.
Thank you so much. This has been driving me nuts for months! My 2 year old somehow changed it and I have been squinting at the tiny font since then.
Thanks so much, that was a great help.
Awesome! This has been driving me nuts for a week, and then I decided to Google it. Landed on this. Thanks for the tip!
This helped me so much!!! It was driving me insane!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
thanks so much…it was really very helpful.
Thank You for solving this was driving me crazy!!!!
Hey! Am I doing something wrong? Switching from smallest to largest does change the font size but by sooooo little that it is barely noticable?
Hi John,
Thanks for the quick fix. Now I can actually see what I am typing.
All the best,
Shaun
Very helpful. Thanks
i don’t no the chose of my p c hp window 7 because it cant state to numeral model unless to the safe model and it can help the screen and the computer please help me.
Thank you Thank you Thank you the zoom thing was my tiny font problem
Thank you so much. This was turning me into a raving lunatic.
No i cant find a message tab or a zoom feature. I have tried everything to no avail.
Thanks Ian
Why does the zoom keep reverting back to 100%? Do I have to change it every time I open a message?
Thank you John
Thank you so much! After searching several forums with no luck, you had the right answer.
THANK-YOU. I was starting to get frustrated…
Thanks so much, that’s a great help – I’ve been puzzled by this one for months. ciao Kathryn
Thank You!!!!!
Thank you SO much. I’ve accidentally zoomed in and made the text unreadable in the past and my son fixed it. I couldn’t remember how he resolved it, so this time I Googled for the fix myself. So simple once you know how to correct it.
Thanks a million………..it’s now fixed.Slainte
Thank you. It helped me to fix the problem.
Thanks, really it’s help me a lot, I was stuck earlier in my mails.
Thank you! worked perfectly.
Thank You Very Much…..!@! issue resolved…
Really helpfull
Thanks John! This solved my problem in 2 seconds. Very helpful
This was extremely helpful. I had been experiencing this for weeks and have had several IT guys try to assist and were unsuccessful.
This was very frustrating.
Thank you sooooooooooooo much!!!
Just one more thank you for this clear and simple solution.
As every one else, I had been struggling with a sudden change of font size, as well of my own text as of forwarded text.
Thanks! Almost too simple, but it’s nice to know I wasn’t the only one experiencing this!
I think my problem may be a bit different. I have received several e-mails from a small number of people which, when displayed, have one or two lines in reasonable, (10 or 12pt) text, followed by a number of lines in < 4pt typeface, which is very hard to read.
Applying the advice on this forum for Outlook 2003 and switching to largest text alters all the other messages on the same e-mail correspondence, but the one with the tiny text is unaffected. The sender tells me it was all 10pt when it left him.
I can solve it by clicking “Forward” then setting all the text to say 12 pt. which makes it all readable.
This has started to happen recently and I am not aware of making any changes, but Microsoft automatic updates have been applied.
What is going on and how do I solve it.
I don’t get the “Format Text” or “Zoom” options, just a pretty red and white moving line.
Thanks a lot!! Save my day!!
Bless you! I didn’t know if my emails were going out with tiny script. Good to know it was just the zoom. Don’t even know how I unzoomed!
THANK YOU!!!
Wonderful. Thanks so much.
That solves it!! Muchas gracias..