Recently when I reply to a text e-mail in Outlook 2003 (Windows XP) the format of the reply is in very tiny italics. Since it is plain text format, all the font choices are grayed out--I can't simply click on the italic button to change it. Although the toolbar says "courier new 10 -italic" and the zoom is at 100%, the appearance of the text is much smaller than 10-point and barely readable. This just started happening recently. How do I undo this, so that the reply appears similar to the received message? Thanks in advance.
Ok, a little investigation reveals the problem is the default format in Word (which Outlook is set to use by default). For some reason, the default format for a new document in Word got set to Times New Roman 12/Italics, and again the view is shrunk to a barely readable size even though the zoom window says 100%. Any ideas how to reset this? (Word help refers to a "Format Menu" with a default option, but that doesn't seem to exist in my setup.) Again, this is Office 2003, using Windows XP.
