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When your Outlook 2007 mail message text is larger or small than usual...

It sometimes happened to me that when I am composing a new mail, suddenly the while message font is became large and I don't know what I had pressed any key to let it happen. today it happened again and I decide to find the cause of it!

after a search of hotkeys in Outlook 2007 help file, found the answer...

Outlook Home > E-mail > Fonts and formatting

The text of my messages is larger or smaller than usual

When you compose, reply to, or forward an e-mail message, and the message body (including the text) appears larger or smaller than the size that you typically see, you might have accidentally changed the zoom view setting.

When the zoom view is changed, the setting is persistent on all future messages you compose, reply to, or forward.

Note   The zoom view setting doesn't affect how recipients will see the message. Messages are always opened at 100-percent zoom view size.

You can adjust the zoom view in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 in two ways — by using your mouse wheel button, or from within Outlook itself.

Use a mouse wheel button to change the zoom

If you have a pointing device, such as the Microsoft IntelliMouse pointing device, that has a wheel button, you can use the wheel button to zoom in on, or out of, the body of a message.

  1. Click the message body.
  2. Press or hold CTRL while you rotate the wheel button to zoom in or out.
Use the Ribbon controls to change the zoom

The zoom level of the message view can be changed in the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.

  1. Click the message body.
  2. On the Format tab, in the Zoom group, click Zoom.
  3. In the Zoom dialog box, under Zoom to, click 100% for the default size, or use the other options to specify a custom zoom size.

    Zoom dialog box

Note   When the zoom view is changed, the setting is persistent on all future messages you compose, reply to, or forward.

So the reason why it was happened on me is that when I type fast and using my mouse around my messages, suddenly I moved the mouse scroll wheel while I was pressing the Ctrl key trying to copy (Ctrl-C) or paste (Ctrl-V) some paragraph.

Case closed! FYI.

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Posted: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:42 PM by rextangtw
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Comments

Amith said:

Thanks a Mil....

My User did this and we struggled to figure this out for a week now.

Thanks Again. :-)

# November 30, 2007 8:38 AM

Manish Jain said:

Thanks so much, this was really bothering me and I am fine now. :)

# May 1, 2008 5:32 AM

Felicia said:

oh my GOD this was driving my crazy.  My font size was so tiny in all the email I composed & read, for weeks!  THANK YOU for posting this tip.

# June 6, 2008 10:49 AM

saurabh said:

Thanks for help,I have followed the article and my resolved.

# June 23, 2008 10:10 PM

laxman said:

This issues was creating tension to change the font size for the replies and now after following the steps, now too easy to reply the mails.

# July 4, 2008 5:17 AM

lajpat kurdiya said:

thanks this information proved very useful for me.

# July 10, 2008 8:51 AM

Matt said:

Thanks for this simple yet superb post... My IT guys were flummoxed with the problem - and presto...  As easy as that, it is solved.

# July 24, 2008 5:41 AM

Surendra said:

Thanks a mate

The information was really useful.

# September 11, 2008 11:34 AM

Suresh said:

Thanks folks for this post. It helped me too.

# September 26, 2008 6:13 PM

Thade_1977 said:

This was the key. This setting carried over on a new build as well when using the Lenovo migration assistant. New build was not done because of this issue but it appeared to follow

# December 3, 2008 12:02 PM

francD said:

This was a great help. It was driving me crazy and now I know it was a simple fix.

# January 6, 2009 6:13 PM

Chris Fischer said:

All of a sudden, this setting keeps changing itself to 130%.  I open a new message, click in the text box, choose the format text ribbon, click zoom, change the value to 100, click ok.  Type and send the message.

Now, if I click a new message again, sometimes it stays on 100%.  But if I close/reopen Outlook, it will be back to 130.

# March 4, 2009 3:15 PM

Ali said:

Thank you so much!  Your post is very helpful :)

# May 12, 2009 3:28 PM
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