Outlook Change Font Size [Shortcut]

Reading emails and documents in Microsoft Outlook can be difficult when the font size is too small or too large.

Whether you have bad eyesight or just need a different font size for aesthetic reasons, Outlook comes with helpful features for quickly and easily change the font size.

If you don’t your recipient to face the same problem, you must change the font size while creating an email message.

By default, Outlook font size is ‘11‘,

In this blog post, we’ll look at a few shortcuts for changing font size in Outlook quickly, so you don’t have to spend time scrolling through intricate menus.

Keyboard Shortcut to change font size in Outlook

“Control + Shift + >” to increase the font size.

and “Control + Shift + <” to decrease the font size

A normal keyboard consists of two sets of Shift and Control keys, any combination of Shift and Control keys will work.

Steps to Use the Keyboard Shortcut to change font size in Outlook

Follow the below steps to change the font size in Outlook email messages. This step will work not only when you create a new email message but also when you reply or forward the message.

To Increase Font Size

  • Open Outlook Application
  • Select the text using Ctrl + Left or Right arrow.
  • Hold Control + Shift Key and press greater than “>” symbol.
  • Single Hit increases the size by one point, you must hit the greater than symbol until you reach your required size.

To Decrease Font Size

  • Open Outlook Application
  • Select the text using Ctrl + Left or Right arrow.
  • Hold Control + Shift Key and press less than “<” symbol.
  • Similarly, a single Hit decreases the size by one point, you must hit the less than symbol until you reach your required size.

Alternate Keyboard Shortcut to change the font size in Outlook

The above method is the most popular and easy to understand, and every user can remember this.

There are a couple of more keyboard shortcuts to change the font size in Outlook.

Alt Key Function

To increase the font size, please press the Alt+H keys together, and then press the FG keys on the keyboard

To decrease the font size, please press the Alt+H keys together, and then press the FK keys on the keyboard

In the above methods the size of the font increase and decreases by up single step only, you need to repeat the keyboard shortcut X times to reach the desired size.

Bonus Tip:

Instead, use Alt + H + FS, which will take you to the font size drop-down list, you can simply increase or decrease the size of the font using the up and down arrow from your keyboard, once you have selected the size simply hit Tab Button or Enter Button.

Font Dialog Box

Font Dialog Box allows users to change the Font, Font Style, Font size, Font Color, Effects, and Text effects.

  • First, select the text you like to change the font size.
  • Click ‘Control + D‘ to open the font dialog box.
  • Hit Tab until you reach the font size section.
  • Use the Up and down arrow keys to increase or decrease the font size, you can also check out the preview under the Preview section.
  • Hit Enter.

Wrap Up

In conclusion, the ability to quickly change font size in Outlook is a useful tool for any user to have in their arsenal.

Now you can easily and quickly change the font size of the text in your emails and other Outlook documents with a few simple keystrokes.

With this shortcut, you can quickly adjust your Outlook documents to the perfect font size for your needs.

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