Mac Mail app - can you view bigger?

NikkiJayne · Nov 27, 2012, 04:57 AM

I'm using a retina MacBook and I find the text of emails sent to me extremely hard to read. I know I can change this by changing the resolution of the entire laptop but to be honest that's a faff when I leave it running in the background and switch to it all the time.

Is there a way to make emails appear larger; can you zoom in like Safari? (The gesture doesn't work so I'm guessing not)

kirky29 · Nov 27, 2012, 05:14 AM

Mail Preferences > Fonts & Colors and change.

Try that, is that what you mean?

colshine · Nov 27, 2012, 05:18 AM

Increasing the font size as directed above will make e-mail more readable.

Shrink · 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by NikkiJayne

I'm using a retina MacBook and I find the text of emails sent to me extremely hard to read. I know I can change this by changing the resolution of the entire laptop but to be honest that's a faff when I leave it running in the background and switch to it all the time.

Is there a way to make emails appear larger; can you zoom in like Safari? (The gesture doesn't work so I'm guessing not)

For some reason, pinch-to-zoom was eliminated from Mac Mail a couple of OS generations ago. I have no idea why, and it stinks.

But you can zoom, if that is what you are trying to do...hold down Command key and use "+" in upper right to zoom in, and Command "-" to zoom out.

NikkiJayne · Nov 27, 2012, 06:07 AM

Fantastic, thanks guys!

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NikkiJayne Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: England	Fantastic, thanks guys!
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