Hmmm. Of which of the myriad verisons of Outlook do we
speak?  I could be wrong, but I believe that this should
be possible in any of them. I just tried it in Outlook
Express and was able to achieve this, although it was of
course not straightforward: Tools... Options... Read Tab;
click the "Fonts" button, and in the "proportional fonts"
pull-down, *select a monospaced font* (I used Monospac821
BT, but Courier should also work; check the "fixed width
font" pull-down for a list of monospaced fonts available on
your machine. Then, click on "set as default", click the
"OK" buttons to back yourself out, *exit Outlook Express*,
and start it again. Now it should show your messages in your
monospaced font. Dumb, but it works.

My copy of regular Outlook is broken on the win95 machine
I have here (the mapi32.dll got clobbered at some point),
but I'll try it on my notebook a little later to see if I
can make it work there. But you likely have to do a similar
thing, tell it to use a fixed-width font when it wants to
use a proportional font.

Generally, I just use mutt and vi on a Linux box, but
I do also on occasion have to beat various Windows
products into submission; it is usually possible, but
the required incantations are often quite obscure.

--Bob

On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 05:23:59PM -0500, Eisermann, Phil wrote:
> > At 09:04 02/26/99 -0600, Lawrence Lile wrote:
> > >the option of viewing them in a monospaced font.  Not any more!
> > Thanks to
> > >Bill Gates and WIN 95 that option is gone.
> >
> > you probably still have the option of selecting a monospaced font for
> > your
> > mail viewer, somewhere in your setup.
> >
>         i am forced to use Microsoft Outlook, and i do
>         not have that option. i can set fonts when
>         composing, replying, or forwarding (and all
>         three can be different), but I cannot set the
>         font for viewing email. seems kinda silly to
>         omit this, but then again, a lot of things
>         about Gatesware seem silly to me.

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