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Thanks, Hans.

Regards,

Well, I’ll be … Yes, indeed! Back to Normal.

But a question – Why is this view size persistent and not just constrained to the current message? I think I caused this when I unknowingly swept my finger over the touch pad while I had the Ctrl key depressed.

Regards,

From your post, it appears that you’re system is connected on an Intranet (“On an Exchange server”). I’d ask your IT people to delete the signature files from your centrally-stored profile.

Thanks. That’ll solve the annoying problem.

Jan,

Thanks. After my research, this behavior I would have expected although the logic escapes me.

Are there other areas of Excel that the default font affects other than new workbooks and the formula bar?

Regards,

SOLVED …

Thanks for suggestions that pointed me to the solution. I performed a Web search for “excel formula bar font size”. One result stated this – “The default font selected under Tools, Options, General controls the formula bar font”. In Excel 2007, here’s how you find and can change the default font size:

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Excel Options.
2. In the Popular category, under When creating new workbooks, do the following:
3. In the Use this font box, click the font that you want to use.
4. In the Font Size box, enter the font size that you want to use

[/list]When I did this, I discovered that the “default” font size was set to 28 points! Interesting since the standard cell font size is 10 – as you can see from the previous images I posted.

As soon as I changed the “default” font size to 10 and restarted Excel, the formula bar shrunk to “normal size”. This seems to me to be very strange behavior.

Okay, so I decided to pursue this one a little further. I changed the “default” font to Impact with a size of 28 and restarted Excel. Low and behold the formula bar/cell contents are displayed in Impact font/28 but the cells on the worksheet are in Verdana/10 (see attachment). Here’s the reason for the cell font not changing from Verdana/10, I think. After I installed Excel 2007, I created a worksheet template with the font face and size (Verdana/10) that I wanted when I started Excel. Since I’m using Vista (or is Vista using me? ), I stored the template in C:Usersuser nameAppDataLocalMicrosoftExcelXLStart. Now it seems that when I start Excel, the worksheet cells use Verdana/10 but the “default” font only affects the formula bar … for at least as far as I have (and probably will) investigate.

Thanks again for the posts that helped me research and solve the problem.

Regards,

I apologize for uploading such a huge image.

Yes, I can INCREASE the vertical size of the formula bar. When i hover the cursor over the divider between the column headings and the formula bar, the cursor changes to a double-ended arrow and I can increase the size but not decrease it. Clicking on the chevron at the right also increases the size. Attached is an image of how the formula bar chages when I click on the chevron.

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Thanks for your help. Isn’t it interesting that the firewall was no problem when VB-1 was wire-connected and yet wireless it exhibited the no-access behavior?

Okay. I disabled all firewalls and all PCs were “happy” as Emeril says. Then I re-enabled the firewall on VU and VB-1 couldn’t access it anymore. I checked the VB-1 NIS Trust center and discovered that I had not setup a trust relationship for VU’s IP address on VB-1. I did and everybody’s happy again.

So, it turns out that I really do have to set up firewall trust relationships for all IP addresses assigned by the router. I never had to do this before. I am using a different service provider at this location (Comcast) than I was at the other (EarthLink) but that shouldn’t make any difference, should it?

Thanks, – Al

Here’s is a conversation between my son (Mac using MS Entourage) and me (using Vista Business with OUTL 2007) that shows what happens as these of e-mail messages are exchanged:

From: My son
Subject: mixed sizes, in HTML

How do you see these?

14 point 16 point 8 point 24 point {Al – Comment: Sent as these font sizes}
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From: Me
Subject: RE: mixed sizes, in HTML

The text you sent is displayed as follows:

8 pt reduces to 5.0 pt
14 pt reduces to 8.5 pt
16 pt reduces to 9.5 pt
24 pt reduces to 14.5 pt

The Verdana font family is maintained.

Since your message to me is displayed below, do you still show the original font sizes?

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From: My Son
Subject: RE: mixed sizes, in HTML

Nope. I see:

14 -> 10 pt.
16 -> 12pt.
8 -> (too small for the size drop-down menu)
24 -> 18 pt.

So for you they scale down around 60% and back to me they scale up 20% or so. Very strange.

On my PC at work (XP Pro, Office 2003) a received plain text email shows no size change (as it shouldn’t – it should show the default size I choose to display email text in). HTML does show reduced sizing, as you’re seeing.

My son sent the e-mail message from his Mac. I’ll have to find out which e-mail program but I’d assume that he uses the standard e-mail client that comes with the Mac.

My e-mail client: Outlook 2007 (version 12.0.6023).Outgoing messages are set to HTML composition. As I’m sure you know, OUTL 2007 doesn’t offer one a choice of editors. It’s HTML, Rich Text or Plain Text. I cannot find any way to specify the format for incoming messages.

Thanks for your fast response,

Thanks, Joe.

I turned WIN FW off and rebooted, err restarted. NIS 2008 states that it’s Vista compatible and yet I have two active FWs. I actually expected NIS to complain that WIN FW was turned ON but it didn’t. So now I’m back to turning the WIN FW off manually and for a brief moment in time incurring the risk of intrusion before the NIS is active. I’ve attached what Vista tells me the status of the WIN FW is.

Sorry for the tardy response. For some reason I didn’t receive an e-mail notification that someone had replied.

Answer – no. All addresses (printers and systems) are DHCP. I also noticed today that my XP system isn’t seeing any router-connected printers. i’m beginning to wonder if the router has gone haywire and decided to do its own thing.

Many thanks for your response,

Open a Windows Explorer window and enter %temp% in the address field.

As a follow-up, is one also stuck with the icon-action associations or can one choose a different icon for a particular action. Explanation – right-clicking on an icon in Office Apps past would allow one to change the icon in addition to editing it.

Thanks,