Having bad eyes I tend to use large fonts and it makes for very limited
screen area.
You should always use plain text. If you receive HTML, switch it to plain
text so you can view in the font and size you like.
Some of the new fonts installed in Entourage 2008 are much easier on the
eyes.
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When looking at items in Entourage I tend to be partial to
only seeing Sender, Subject and Send time in the columns.
You might like 3 pane view better.
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The center column can be sorted by "Arrange by:"
There are no columns to set!
I can set this view for each folder. However, I have all my mail on an
Exchange server and we're talking about 10 years worth of mail. I'd like to
be able to make the column view change global for all the folders, not just
one at a time... It's very time consuming when you have probably 3,000
folders.
There is no easy way.
Any subfolders you make will have the same column set-up as its parent. For
example, set up your Inbox how you want it, then when you create new
folders, it will inherit the settings.
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Some aids for visual impaired:
Look at Coloristic -
http://www.bubblepop.com/coloristic/ This is a mouse
over magnification program. $12
Also, this link provides a lot of useful information on the Mac options,
used with, for example a PC mouse with a wheel.... wheel increases/decreases
magnification.
http://www.low-vision.org/index.php?dispage=77
If you register for a free Apple Developer account,
http://developer.apple.com/, and download the Xcode development tools that
come with it, you'll get a very good, free magnifying app called Pixie.
Pixie puts a magnified window (you select the magnification level) on your
Desktop. Pixie's default behavior is to follow the cursor, providing a
magnified window of wherever the cursor happens to be. If you dig into the
preferences, you can also make the window always float on top of all others.
Let me add that you can change the size of the Pixie window, too. Its
default size is adequate for many purpose but not ideal for reading text. If
you would like a larger window, you can increase the size by modifying
Pixie's .plist file--and that you can do with the Property List Editor,
another of the free tools you get with that developer's account. The keys to
modify in com.apple.Pixie.plist (it will be in your home directory after
you've run Pixie once, ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Pixie.plist) are
SourceHeight
SourceWidth
Change the numbers from 48 (which appears to equate to approximately 144
pixels) to something larger. There's probably an upper limit, but I don't
know what it is. (you can just grab the corner of the Pixie window to resize
it. Much easier that way.)
These suggestion were posted on the MacOSXHints forum:
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