twnielsen2
Fri Oct 13 09:43:47 CDT 2006
Barry,
Thanks for the information! I guess I'll have to give it try.
Thanks.
On Oct 13, 12:43 am, "Barry Wainwright [MVP]" <b...@mvps.org.INVALID>
wrote:
> First, a point of clarification - the entourage.mvps.org site is not mine,
> it is maintained by Diane, another MVP & regular poster here.
>
> The problem lies not entirely with Entourage, but with the 'round-tripping'
> of the text between different systems. If you were just sending Entourage to
> Entourage everything would stay the same. If you sent Outlook to outlook (if
> it is outlook at the other end), everything would stay the same. However,
> because you are sending entourage to outlook to entourage to outlook, the
> different coding systems cause the confusion, and unfortunately there's no
> easy fix. As explained in the web page you saw, you can set rules to make
> the whole text bigger, but that doesn't help when only a portion of the text
> is shrinkng.
>
> The only other option is to convert the reply to plain text then back to
> HTML. You will lose some of the formatting, but part of that formatting you
> will lose is the size variation!
>
> --
> Barry Wainwright
> Microsoft MVP (see
http://mvp.support.microsoft.comfor details)
> Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
> <
http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>
>
> > From: <twniels...@gmail.com>
> > Organization:
http://groups.google.com
> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> > Date: 12 Oct 2006 20:54:53 -0700
> > Subject: Re: problem: Fonts get smaller as thread gets longer
>
> > Thanks Barry, but when I started having this problem, your site was the
> > first one I looked at :-) I check your site out weekly. That said, the
> > below link didn't help and I was there before I posted here. I'd copy
> > and paste a sample, but the emails are in html and pasting in here
> > won't look correct. I keep looking for a Contact email address on your
> > site, but can't one...hmmm wonder why???
>
> > Anyway, I can of course, select all text and then set the font
> > size...but I don't want to do that on every reply I send. There's got
> > to be a tweak somewhere that says "Do not make older replies in
> > smaller, and smaller font."
>
> > Any other options?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
>
> > Barry Wainwright [MVP] wrote:
> >> <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/fonts.html#font1>
>
> >> --
> >> Barry Wainwright
> >> Microsoft MVP (see
http://mvp.support.microsoft.comfor details)
> >> Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
> >> <
http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>
>
> >>> From: <twniels...@gmail.com>
> >>> Organization:
http://groups.google.com
> >>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> >>> Date: 12 Oct 2006 10:37:17 -0700
> >>> Subject: Re: problem: Fonts get smaller as thread gets longer
>
> >>> BUMP
>
> >>> twniels...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>>> I am running 10.4.8 OSX and 11.2.5 Entourage. When I get emails that
> >>>> have replies in them, I've notice the fonts get smaller as the thread
> >>>> gets longer. Even a non-Mac user is seeing these smaller fonts. They
> >>>> are so small, you can't read them. Example:
>
> >>>> (12pt font): thanks for emailing me. (received today)
>
> >>>> (10pt font): the meeting is tomorrow. (sent yesterday)
>
> >>>> (8pt font): when is the meeting. (sent 2 days ago)
>
> >>>> (6pt font): Are you going to the meeting? (sent 3 days ago)
>
> >>>> (4pt font): I'm fine. (sent 4 days ago)
>
> >>>> This may be a bad example, but as the thread gets older, the older
> >>>> messages get smaller. I can't figure out how to fix this unless I use
> >>>> non-html encoded emails.
>
> >>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Tom