Select Mail in the left pane. In Outlook, select File > Options. You can change the message format via the Format Text tab but in general you shouldn't change the message format upon replying unless you're sure that the receiver has no issues with the format change.Change All Sent Email Outlook for Windows. Outlook will always reply in the same mail format as you've received the original message in.
![]() Microsoft Outlook Changing Email Format Manual And SeemsMy own experimentation shows that your best bet at a good looking / reasonably sized font on both systems is: Arial 11 or 12 point as set on the Mac. A previous poster has provided size mappings. This is highly manual and seems the worst of the 3 options, but is the most straightforward and easiest to explain.The secondary issue is that Windows/Outlook will STILL not map your fonts unless the font-face name is identical, and even when identical, will map font sizes differently than you expect. Manually Set the Font - Click the "A" icon at the top of the compose-message window to always show your "format bar" and simply manually set the font on the text you send with every email. It is another option, though. I did not try it because I thought always using the keyboard shortcut was as much trouble as remembering to remove the top-line of my message.I use Arial 11 for my signature, and the slightly larger Arial 12 for my message text.From my testing you need to do the following to get Outlook recipients to see messages in your desired font:Based on my testing, it appears that Mail considers the Message Font to be the default font and with any mail that gets sent to Outlook clients (at least through Exchange) the Message Font gets converted to Times New Roman.Also, you need to be aware that PC Outlook recipients will see a different font size than you set.Here is the font size translation I found when testing:I'm continuing to investigate this issue because I want a better solution than this one.
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