Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

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You can change the font and its color, size, and style—such as bold or italic for all messages you send. For example, you can change the color of your message text or use the font Arial instead of the default Calibri.

  1. Click File > Options > Mail.

  2. Under Compose messages, click Stationery and Fonts.

    Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

  3. On the Personal Stationery tab, under New mail messages, click Font.

    If you want to change font styles for messages you reply to or forward, under Replying or forwarding messages, click Font.

    Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

  4. On the Font tab, under Font, click the font you want to use.

  5. You can also select a font style and size.

If the font you choose isn't installed on the recipient's computer, the recipient's mail program substitutes an available font.

Change font style options back to the defaults

In Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, the default font used when you create, reply to, or forward an email message is 11-point Calibri. Here's how to change the font back to the original font.

  1. Click File > Options > Mail.

  2. Under Compose messages, click Stationery and Fonts.

    Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

  3. On the Personal Stationery tab, under New mail messages, click Font.

To change font styles for messages you reply to or forward back to the original font, Calibri, under Replying or forwarding messages, click Font.

Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

  1. On the Font tab, under Font, click the entry +Body.

  2. Under Font style, click Regular.

  3. Under Size, click 11.

    Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

See Also

Change the default font or text color for email messages

Need more help?

We use Outlook 2010 / 2013. We have two exchange accounts. One local (domain) and one Office 365.

If we send internal mail, fonts are 100%.

If we reply to an external email sometimes it is 100% but other times our font has been changed to Times Roman.

All obvious settings have been looked at, in Outlook, Internet options, the defaults templates for email (.dotm) etc.

I am looking for a global solution and not one that involves changes to each machine on the network.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

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asked Mar 8, 2016 at 14:50

For the ones that have been "changed to Times", check the format the mail is being sent as.

If it's sending as Plain-text then any custom fonts will be removed, and Outlook usually defaults to Times New Roman to display plain-text.

The response type (Plain-text, vs. Rich-text (RTF) vs. HTML) is set globally, but can be overridden by settings in the individual Outlook contacts, and that can be further overridden per-email response, depending on the format type of the email you're replying to (if you reply to a plain-text email, Outlook may/will automatically assume Plain-text for the response).

More info on checking/setting that setting per-contact is available here (amongst other places).

answered Mar 8, 2016 at 15:11

Font changes after sending email Outlook 365

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Just happened to me as well for Outlook 2010. To fix this, I went into "Stationery and Fonts", changed the fonts to something else, then re-saved the font settings back to what I wanted (Arial as default), then closed and re-opened Outlook again and it's normal again.

answered May 10, 2016 at 3:29

had the same issue and this is what worked for me.

Our users are running office 2016 and all the default fonts are set to calibri 11pt regular font. But when 1 user would send an email it would revert back to times new roman and send the email in that font.

Our version of office had been activated but it seems like for some reason it did not take effect. I went to "change product key" and re entered our license which then prompted to activate online. After doing that and getting a notice that our version of office was activated all of my changes stayed in place.

Seems like when you activate office there is a potential error if it doesn't finishing activating which may cause your changes to revert since you aren't running a "full" version of office 2016.

hope that helps -good luck

answered Jun 6, 2018 at 15:15

Why does my email font size keeps changing in Outlook?

When you compose, reply to, or forward an email message, and the message body (including the text) appears larger or smaller than the size that you typically see, you might have changed the zoom view setting. The zoom affects only the current item.

Why does my font change when I reply to an email in Outlook?

If you find you font automatically changing on you, when replying to email messages, this is where you need to go to turn it off. Step One: Open Outlook. Go to File > Options > Mail > Stationary and Fonts > Uncheck “Pick a new color when replying or forwarding”. Click OK.

Why does my font change when I receive an email?

Depending on the receiving device, email app / program, browser, or another element contributing toward the email showing, if the selected font isn't available then the email program will default to another. Generally the email program will try to replace it with as close of a font as it has access to.

Why does my font shrink when I reply in Outlook?

In many cases, the user did not intentionally make this change. Open any Outlook email message and click on the Reply button. In the main menu, click on the Format > Zoom menu options. Change the Zoom setting to 100% (or whatever size you prefer) and click on the OK button.