Re: UNREAD mail doesn't display bolder in Inbox

It WAS the font choice. Thanks! One strange thing, however: The same font
(MS Sans Serif with non-bold setting) causes no such problem for OE 6 on my
other PC which is running the same OS and same IE 6. I think the ultimate
fauklt for the discrepancy is with the recently downlaoded OE 6 that I just
upgraded from OE 5. When I looked for another font to switch to, many of the
decent-looking ones that I tried behaved the same way.

The choice of "icon" font also determines the font used iin Windows
Explorer's directory tree, so I rejected some for the way they look in that
application. I finally settled on Arial, and when I set fit or Bold (to make
it easier to read in Explorer) I found it tstill works OK in OE (i.e., the
Unread itemss sstand out bolder than the Unread. Go figure!

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

> "Kev" <kevOMITTHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F6B6FD1F-AE1A-4AD6-8916-A0F485FEE036@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Mail arriving to my OE 6 inbox does not get listed in a font that is
> > bolder or different in any way from mail that has already been read.
> > (It does display the Unread envelope icon, however.) I know that
> > the feature must exist in OE 6 because it is mentioned in the Help
> > file, where it defines the "unread" icon this way:
> > "The message has not been read. The message heading appears in bold
> > type."
> >
> > And when describing the "read" icon, it explains: "The message has
> > been read. The message heading appears in light type. "
> >
> > I already tried to fix this by moving messages out of the Inbox,
> > closing OE, and then deleting Inbox.dbx. On relaunching OE, a new,
> > surely uncorrupted Inbox was generated but still behaved the same
> > way. I have found nothing at all in the Knowledgebase about this.
> > My poor vision requires something other than tiny icons for me to
> > distinguish the unread messages from those already read. Please
> > help. Thanks.
>
> This happens when the font for icons is set to bold or a font is chosen for
> icons that does not have a bold version. Right click the desktop and choose
> Properties | Appearance. In the Item drop-down box choose Icon (depending
> on your Windows version you may have to click an "Advanced" button to see
> this). This font is also used for the message list in OE and in several
> other places.
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