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Now once you've set all the View Settings options as you wish, and OK'd everything and returned to the main view, at the left you should click the Change View button.The Columns button by the way lets you choose the column headings and change their order if you wish (except Flag status, which I'll come to).In View Settings I also clicked the "Group By" button and UNticked "Automatically group according to arrangement" because I don't like the auto-grouping, the titles take up precious space and I can tell, yes all by my lil self, what day is Today or Yesterday, from looking at the Dates!.In Other Settings I also chose to UNtick "Automatic Column Sizing" as I prefer to control it myself, dragging the column borders as I need.Here you can click Column Font, which is the font in the headings, then change the size (I made mine 10), and OK, and again click Row Font and increase the font size - this is the font for the email messages' subject line, From, etc.In the popup box click the "Other Settings" button.While you're viewing your mail, eg Inbox still selected, again make sure you're in to the View menu view, then click the View Settings button.To make the font bigger for the lists of emails in the middle of the window, including column headings (From, To, Date) as well as the contents of the Subject line etc: This just fixes the text for the list of folders - Inbox, Sent etc - on the extreme left. While you're in Options, you might want to untick things in the "Display buttons in this order" list, so that the bottom left of the Navigation pane doesn't take up so much space - and move items up and down as you wish, too.I found Arial Black, Bold, 9 works best for me as a compromise between being able to read the text and the pane not taking up too much space, but experiment and see what works for you(there's no Preview option, you just have to OK everything to see the changes) Click on the Navigation Pane button or the down arrow in its corner, then click Options.Go to menu View > Navigation pane (in the Layout group).Click once on the folder eg Inbox to select it.To make the Navigation Pane (the one on the left) easier to read: There's no Preview so you have to just try the different ones out and see what's least bad for you personally. Or even a "Windows Classic" which was great for visibility. Under General (it should be preselected but if not it's the top item in the list on the left), the option is "Color scheme" - the dropdown only offers 3 options, as mentioned.Īgain why isn't there a high visibility or accessibility-friendly theme, I don't know.Go to menu File > Options (why they've reduced the size of the font for the Options menu entry, beats me - but it's there, just above Exit).If you want to try the other 2 themes in case they work better for you: Whoever thought that making the background grey, without giving users the option of a changing to a white background, was a good idea? I bet they had 20-20 vision and are 20 years old. The default "Silver" theme is in my view the least bad of a bad selection - I found the other two choices to be even harder to read. Yes Outlook stops too when I receive new emails, but only for a second, which I can live with.) Themes I've tried disabling reminders, visual and audio, it doesn't help.
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I just can't function with the constant hanging.
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(For anyone interested - I had to change to Outlook because Thunderbird kept freezing for ages everytime a new email arrived, and when version 5 still didn't fix it, I gave up on Thunderbird. If you want Outlook 2010 to be easier to view and read, and want as much information as possible to be visible to you without having to scroll, the steps I had to take to set up Outlook 2010, below, may be of use to you. In terms of accessibility, I consider it a step down down from Outlook 2003, but there y'go.
HOW TO CHANGE PREFERENCES IN OUTLOK 2010 HOW TO
This post is about how to change fonts and other settings to make the Outlook 2010 email window easier to read, if you have poor eyesight like me.