. In your Inbox, from the Ribbon, select the View tab.
In the Current View group, select View Settings. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, select Conditional Formatting. In the Conditional Formatting dialog box, select Unread messages. Select Font. In the Font dialog box, select a color for the email font from the Color drop-down list. In the Conditional Formatting dialog box, click OK. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, click OK.
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Your Inbox will now display unread messages in the font color you selected, making them stand out. Related Video.
: 100+ New Advanced Tools for Outlook.: Enable Tabbed Editing and Browsing in Office, Just Like Chrome, Firefox, IE 8/9/10.: Bring Old Menus and Toolbars Back to Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. The following steps will help you quickly change the font style, font size, and font color of unread group header. Step 1: Shift to the Mail view with clicking the Mail in the Navigation Pane. Step 2: Select the folder that you will change the font of unread group headers in it.
Step 3: Open the Advanced View Settings: compact (or Custom View: Messages) dialog box:. In Outlook 2010 and 2013, please click the View Settings button in the Current View group on the View tab. In Outlook 2007, please click the View Current View Customize Current View. Step 4: In the popping up dialog box, please click the Conditional Formatting button (or Automatic Formatting in Outlook 2007). Step 5: In the Conditional Formatting dialog box:. Uncheck all options except the Unread group headers option in the Rules for this view: box.
Click the Font button. Step 6: In the Font dialog box:. (1) Select a font face in the Font: box. In our case, we select the Segoe Print. (2) Select a font style in the Font style: box.
In our case, we select the Bold Oblique. (3) Select a font size in the Size: box. In our case, we select the Bigger. (4) Select one font color in the Color: box. In our case we select the red color. Step 7: Click all OK buttons in each dialog box. Go back to the mail interface of Microsoft Outlook, and you will see that the unread group headers display as red Segoe Print font, and the font is Bold Oblique and Bigger.
In Outlook, the default font is 11-point Calibri in black. It's used when you compose new email messages. You can change the default font and its color, size,.
See the following screen shot: Note: This set is only valid for the select folder. Applying the changed unread group header for all mail folders in your Microsoft Outlook, please click the Change View Apply current view to other mail folder on the View tab.