Tired of writing all of your e-mails in 10-point Arial, or 10-point Courier New if you send e-mail in plain text? You can change Outlook 2003's default font to Times New Roman, Verdana, or whatever else you have on your system. Note that if you use fonts other people users do not have, your e-mails may not look the same on other machines.

1. Click "Tools", selecting "Options".

2. When the "Options" multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the "Mail Format" tab.

3. Click the "Fonts" button.

4. From here, click the "Choose Font" button next to whether or not you want to change the default font for composing messages, replying to messages, and/or composing and reading plain-text messages.

5. When the appropriate "Font" dialog box opens, change your font name, size, style, effects, color, and/or script as desired.

6. When done, press "OK" on each dialog box to close.

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