Microsoft has announced a big change to the Outlook mobile app that gives you more control over your email formatting. Alongside the usual formatting options, like bold, italics, and underline, you can now switch your font to any of the typefaces you’d expect to see when using the desktop app.
Microsoft’s mobile apps are notoriously less user-friendly than their desktop counterparts. For example, theMicrosoft Word mobile app isn’t greatif you want to edit your documents using more advanced formatting features, and theExcel mobile app lacks some essential toolslike conditional formatting and pivot tables. However, Microsoft has finally recognized the need to bring the Outlook mobile app more in line with the desktop app, especially since the ability to change fonts was “the most requested feature from Outlook mobile users.”
When drafting an email, your email signature, or an automatic reply, tap the formatting icon at the bottom of your screen.
You’ll then see the font option next to the other formatting buttons.
Handily, the font menu that opens shows you a preview of how each typeface looks, meaning you’re able to choose a font that aligns with the tone of your email. If you don’t have an internet connection, only the fonts you have used recently will appear in this list.
As part of the Outlook mobile app shake-up, Microsoft also announced just yesterday that you canminimize Outlook email drafts on the mobile appif you want to quickly grab a link, check your calendar, or copy and paste some text from a website to your email, exactly as you would when typing an email on your computer. This makes multitasking so much easier and saves you from having to find the email in your drafts when you head back to the Outlook app.
Currently, the new font-changing feature is only available to Microsoft Insiders running version 4.2427.0 or later on the Android Beta channel or version 4.2442.0 or later on the iOS TestFlight channel. It’s also slowly being rolled out to production users running version 4.2452.0 or later. However, we can expect the useful tool to become generally available in the coming months once Microsoft has ironed out any bugs and implemented Insider feedback.
