When your Outlook 2007 mail message text is larger or small than usual...

It sometimes happened to me that when I am composing a new mail, suddenly the while message font is became large and I don't know what I had pressed any key to let it happen. today it happened again and I decide to find the cause of it!

after a search of hotkeys in Outlook 2007 help file, found the answer...

Outlook Home > E-mail > Fonts and formatting

The text of my messages is larger or smaller than usual

When you compose, reply to, or forward an e-mail message, and the message body (including the text) appears larger or smaller than the size that you typically see, you might have accidentally changed the zoom view setting.

When the zoom view is changed, the setting is persistent on all future messages you compose, reply to, or forward.

Note The zoom view setting doesn't affect how recipients will see the message. Messages are always opened at 100-percent zoom view size.

You can adjust the zoom view in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 in two ways — by using your mouse wheel button, or from within Outlook itself.

Use a mouse wheel button to change the zoom

If you have a pointing device, such as the Microsoft IntelliMouse pointing device, that has a wheel button, you can use the wheel button to zoom in on, or out of, the body of a message.

1. Click the message body.
2. Press or hold CTRL while you rotate the wheel button to zoom in or out.

Use the Ribbon controls to change the zoom

The zoom level of the message view can be changed in the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.

1. Click the message body.

2. On the Format tab, in the Zoom group, click Zoom.

3. In the Zoom dialog box, under Zoom to, click 100% for the default size, or use the other options to specify a custom zoom size.

Note When the zoom view is changed, the setting is persistent on all future messages you compose, reply to, or forward.

So the reason why it was happened on me is that when I type fast and using my mouse around my messages, suddenly I moved the mouse scroll wheel while I was pressing the Ctrl key trying to copy (Ctrl-C) or paste (Ctrl-V) some paragraph.

Case closed! FYI.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  October 05, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 30, 2007
  Thanks a Mil.... My User did this and we struggled to figure this out for a week now. Thanks Again. :-)

• Anonymous
  April 30, 2008
  Thanks so much, this was really bothering me and I am fine now. :)

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 23, 2008
  Thanks for help,I have followed the article and my resolved.

• Anonymous
  July 03, 2008
  This issues was creating tension to change the font size for the replies and now after following the steps, now too easy to reply the mails.

• Anonymous
  July 10, 2008
  thanks this information proved very useful for me.

• Anonymous
  July 23, 2008
  Thanks for this simple yet superb post... My IT guys were flummoxed with the problem - and presto...  As easy as that, it is solved.

• Anonymous
  September 11, 2008
  Thanks a mate The information was really useful.

• Anonymous
  September 26, 2008
  Thanks folks for this post. It helped me too.

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2008
  This was the key. This setting carried over on a new build as well when using the Lenovo migration assistant. New build was not done because of this issue but it appeared to follow

• Anonymous
  January 06, 2009
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• Anonymous
  March 04, 2009
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  May 12, 2009
  Thank you so much!  Your post is very helpful :)

• Anonymous
  October 08, 2009
  thanks, very nice/simple tip. its very use full.

• Anonymous
  January 22, 2010
  I spents HOURS of my life trying to figure this out and it was making me insane.  Finally, a friend sent me this link.  It was so easy to correct with your post.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!  

• Anonymous
  March 02, 2010
  many many thanks for this your a star

• Anonymous
  April 21, 2010
  Many thanks for this. I too must have accidently done the hold down ctrl while moving the mouse scroll wheel. My IT department could not solve this for over 2 weeks. I solved it within 30 seconds after I found your site

• Anonymous
  April 28, 2010
  Lots of thanks, my problem is solved.

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2010
  Amazing this article helped me big time

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2010
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• Anonymous
  June 03, 2010
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  July 14, 2010
  Had a user with the same issue.... Thank you so much for helping!

• Anonymous
  August 24, 2010
  Thanks!! This was really helpful!!

• Anonymous
  September 07, 2010
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• Anonymous
  September 14, 2010
  Resolution worked like a charm. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2010
  Its great to know this fix as i was struggling with this for a long time.. this is of a great help and thanks again.....

• Anonymous
  September 20, 2010
  and again a lost soul rescued...nice olk feature..:-) many may thnx

• Anonymous
  September 20, 2010
  GREAT info.  I was just about to throw this laptop in the road.

• Anonymous
  October 11, 2010
  Thank you. You're the first person who told me HOW TO do it. The other sites told me there was a problem with the zoom, but no help further to that! :) It worked like a charm!

• Anonymous
  October 25, 2010
  thank u so much , i never thought this way .. this was really a help..

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2010
  Thank You so Much - the problem which I have been facing since a month resolved in just a couple of minutes.......

• Anonymous
  December 15, 2010
  Thank u..I had the same problem..Now resolved:)

• Anonymous
  December 27, 2010
  Thanks a lot  I appreciate for your effort. Thanks again.

• Anonymous
  January 03, 2011
  Hi, thanks for the tip. I was trying to find the steps on my own but failed. now resolved. thanks.

• Anonymous
  January 13, 2011
  This drove my boss insane...that made me happy

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2011
  Hi, thanks for the tips.  I was able to re-set zoom in Outlook 2007.

• Anonymous
  February 07, 2011
  Yeah!!! This is a very nice tips. You save my time Cheers Victor Hugo

• Anonymous
  February 24, 2011
  Thanks for the tip. I was floundering around default styles, themes, fonts, and other areas after thinking I knew what the problem was after being misled by an options setting. Changing the zoom is so simple. Why does this setting persist by default is the big question.

• Anonymous
  March 02, 2011
  If you have a touchpad with scroll capability, you can hold down the Ctrl key and run your finger up or down the right side of the touchpad. I'm sure that that is how mine was messed up to start with.

• Anonymous
  March 18, 2011
  Who knew that could even happen?!? Thanks for the help!

• Anonymous
  May 04, 2011
  Thank you!  This saved me so much time wondering what a user did to her mail!

• Anonymous
  May 05, 2011
  Thank you Thank you Thank you!  I couldn't figure out what the heck I had clicked on when my font was reduced!

• Anonymous
  May 15, 2011
  Thanks .... Dude

• Anonymous
  May 17, 2011
  Thanks Dude...

• Anonymous
  May 18, 2011
  Thanks so much for posting this , it  has really bothering me :-))

• Anonymous
  June 02, 2011
  So glad this post was there - having this problem for weeks and finally googled it for the answer!

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2011
  Thank you.

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2011
  Yes, thanks!  Just had it happen to me for the first time and knew it zoomed somehow, but wasn't sure.  Thanks!

• Anonymous
  July 18, 2011
  Thanks for your help! One of my users had this issue and I'm glad I found this site or I might of pulled out my hair on this small little thing.

• Anonymous
  July 19, 2011
  This is a great post! It gave the user his peace of mind. Thanks

• Anonymous
  July 28, 2011
  tHANKS!

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2011
  Thanks! Made me to strugle for a day.

• Anonymous
  September 03, 2011
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• Anonymous
  September 16, 2011
  Thank you, saved me some time...

• Anonymous
  October 05, 2011
  User still doesn't know what she did to change it, but thanks to you we all know how to fix it now.  :-)

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2011
  This really helped me. Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2011
  Very helpful!!  Thanks so much!

• Anonymous
  December 26, 2011
  Thanks a Lot............. it's really helpful me

• Anonymous
  January 02, 2012
  Thanks - was bugging me to the point that I needed to look it up.  Article was very helpful!

• Anonymous
  January 27, 2012
  I am also all set.

• Anonymous
  February 12, 2012
  Thanks! Worked Perfectly

• Anonymous
  February 16, 2012
  This helped perfectly. Thank you!

• Anonymous
  February 17, 2012
  thanks so much, the tiny print was making me ill and I couldn't fix it.

• Anonymous
  April 04, 2012
  This happens to be every now and again!!  Thank you for this help!  I hve been crossed eyed trying to read my email drafts and you have prevented future headaches for me.  :o)

• Anonymous
  April 05, 2012
  Thank you very helpful.

• Anonymous
  April 10, 2012
  Thank you, I managed to shrink my view to 10% by the CTRL + mouse wheel action, I am glad I searched for a solution and found your post. I was losing my mind trying to figure out what I did to zoom out my sent mails. Was able to fix it in seconds once I read your post. Cheers!

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2012
  Like everything simple when you know how, thanks a mil.

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2012
  Thanksssssss.. easy straight forwrd.!!!

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2012
  That's really helpful, thanks! : )

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2012
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• Anonymous
  June 19, 2012
  Thank you!

• Anonymous
  June 19, 2012
  NOpe that didnt work for us. The email signature was stil normal size but the font size was about 2800 siz额！

• Anonymous
  June 19, 2012
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  June 20, 2012
  Thank you very much for a simple solution........!!!!!

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2012
  Thanks so much..!!

• Anonymous
  July 08, 2012
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  July 30, 2012
  I have searched for an answer to this problem for months.  Today, I found this.  THANK YOU!

• Anonymous
  August 15, 2012
  I find it miraculous that people spend "months" trying to figure out an answer to this problem, since it took all of 25 seconds of googling and reading to solve it...

• Anonymous
  September 06, 2012
  Thank you so much. It was of great help. Cheers!

• Anonymous
  September 24, 2012
  Thanks a million. Worked fine. Take good care.

• Anonymous
  September 28, 2012
  Thank-you!!  What a relief.  So simple yet so buried.  

• Anonymous
  October 15, 2012
  very helpful information

• Anonymous
  October 22, 2012
  Thank you for this article - it was the answer I spent so much time looking for! Couldn't figure out what I did wrong!

• Anonymous
  November 26, 2012
  TG - I had the same thought as I was reading down the list, then I saw your post!  Funny.  And incredible.

• Anonymous
  November 27, 2012
  Thanks this was driving me mad.

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2012
  thank you!!!

• Anonymous
  December 27, 2012
  Thank you!!!!!!!!! this was driving me mad.

• Anonymous
  January 13, 2013
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  February 15, 2013
  Thank you very much. I knew it had to be an easy solution but could not figure out the combination of keys that I held down. It turned out to be the CTRL and mouse.

• Anonymous
  March 21, 2013
  thanks

• Anonymous
  April 10, 2013
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2013
  You saved me! Thanks so much

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2013
  Thank u

• Anonymous
  June 25, 2013
  Thx. Buddy

• Anonymous
  July 10, 2013
  Thanx so much.

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2013
  Thanks a lot. Been struggling with this for weeks.

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2013
  Appreciate you putting this fix online, thanks

• Anonymous
  August 27, 2013
  Thanks - was pulling my hair out................

• Anonymous
  September 16, 2013
  Thanks for putting this fix! Ive been wondering for days and its been frustrating! Much appreciated!!!! :-) :-) :-)

• Anonymous
  September 21, 2013
  Extremely helpful! thanks for posting the solution! relieved from a frustrating misery :)

• Anonymous
  September 21, 2013
  Thanks for the tip. you save my time

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2013
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  November 03, 2013
  Thanks so much for the tip

• Anonymous
  November 08, 2013
  thank you so much, my problem has been resolve

• Anonymous
  November 14, 2013
  Extremely Helpful - thank you!!

• Anonymous
  December 04, 2013
  Thanx Rex. It Worked !

• Anonymous
  February 03, 2014
  am grateful for your help, am now sorted

• Anonymous
  February 08, 2014
  Thanks really.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2014
  i have tried it ,its useful thanks a lot

• Anonymous
  June 26, 2014
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  July 02, 2014
  Thank you! It is still the same in Outlook 2013.

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2014
  Thank's a lot of you .. :)

• Anonymous
  November 02, 2014
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  December 08, 2014
  Thank you!!

• Anonymous
  March 11, 2015
  Thanks!!!   :)  :)

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2015
  thank you

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2015
  really worked for me thank you !!!!

• Anonymous
  September 06, 2015
  Thans you!

• Anonymous
  September 21, 2015
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• Anonymous
  October 01, 2015
  thank you so much!  I couldn't figure out what I did or how to correct it.  tried your suggestion and voila! back to normal.  so happy!

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2015
  Thank you Rex Tang you saved my life and probably my job too LOL THANK YOU MY HERO !!!!!!!!

• Anonymous
  January 06, 2016
  Thank you --- I couldn['t figure this out for weeks.

• Anonymous
  January 18, 2016
  TY So Greatful For Your POST Rex Tang!!!! :D My text went so tiny I had pressed two keys without meaning to and not knowing what I pressed while composing a reply to an email. Your comment fixed My issue immediately! Yes! Your post in 2007 is on my Birthday :D So TY for this Gift. I would of suffered tiresly had I not typed into microsoft search for the answer. & Was I saved from Your Research, kindness & effort to help us all here with this very Important part of our lives when it comes to email communication; which is HUGE in Many of Our lives!!! You are Defineatly A True Hero! Abundant Blessings~ Love & Peace.

• Anonymous
  February 03, 2016
  Thank You so much its helped me a lot, i was so worried at my outlook font size. Thank you so much once again.

• Anonymous
  February 16, 2016
  thank you so much, my problem has been resolved