Step 1: Turn Off Category Icons

From Eudora's main screen, choose Tools / Options and select Fonts & Display. Uncheck the "Show category icons" box and click OK to dismiss the Options window.

Step 2: Set Fonts and Window Sizes

Choose Tools / Options again and you'll be taken back to the "Fonts & Display" settings. In the left-hand panel, you don't have the advantage of icons, but it is handy to be able to get to all the options without scrolling. The width and height settings are for message composition windows. Most users can leave these at their defaults.

Step 3: Investigate Fonts

The two screen font buttons control the font face and size used on the screen, and on headers and footers of messages printed on your printer. Click the Screen font button. Even if Courier type looks boring and plain, you may find that using a fixed-pitch font helps you remember that you are composing messages in plain text. If you would like to change the font and size Eudora uses, make the changes here. The appearance of mail you send is not affected. Click OK to dismiss the window.

Step 4: Complete Fonts & Display

If you want to change the font Eudora uses for headers and footers on printed messages, press the button and follow the same procedure as for the screen font. For an explanation of the remaining settings on this screen, see the tutorial "Setting up Eudora views."

Step 5: View Styled Text Options

Select the Styled Text category. Eudora Light sends only plain-text messages. This means none of the listed attributes are available on outgoing messages. But if someone sends you a message with rich text or HTML coding, Eudora can show it to you as the sender intended. If you'd rather not see some of the effects; for example, your monitor has trouble with some colors, you can uncheck the boxes. Click OK to dismiss the window.