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Hi,
Just D/L & installed TB 6.7.2 Home on my XP SP3 laptop. I have 2 problems I haven't found answers for yet in the Help file:

Fonts!: I found out how to configure font size in the 3 panes but not the menus, toolbars, etc. How do I make EVRERYTHING in the program readable? "Out of the box" this program is not even close to usable for anyone over 35 yrs old!

When i'm done configuring I want to have 3 different accounts that will funnel *all* incoming mail into a common or global "inbox". I tried to create such a folder but TB requires that any new folder be *below* the default inbox of the one account i've created so far. What's the trick?

TC
 
 
 
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Font size for menus and toolbars is a Windows setting. It is the same font as the labels under icons on your desktop or in other folders, plus folder menus.

With my Windows XP, if I go to the Windows desktop and right-click an empty space, click "Properties" in the context menu, sel ect the "appearance" tab, and change the font size between "normal", "large fonts" and "extra large fonts", and then  click "apply", the font size changes. The change carries through to TB! even if it is open at time.

Common folders: the easiest way (in TB! 4.0.38 and older, probably not changed in newer versions) is from the "Folder" menu. Folder | New | New Common Folder. But if you create one under an account's Inbox, you can move it out. Sel ect that folder, right-click, select "move out" fr om the context menu. Or CTRL+SHIFT+left arrow.

But do you really want to move the messages to a "Common Inbox" rather than simply view them as if that were the case? If, instead, you create a common virtual folder,  you can see the messages as if they had been moved to a common folder but they actually still reside in their own account. This has the advantage that when you reply, it is automatically fr om the account the message came into.
 
 
 
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Hi,  Thanks for answering.

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With XP...(Display)...and change the font size between "normal", "large fonts" and "extra large fonts", and then click "apply", the font size changes.

I'm on a laptop w/ a hi-res screen and i'm no longer 21 so i'm already at "extra large".

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Font size for menus and toolbars is a Windows setting. It is the same font as the labels under icons on your desktop...

OK, I went to Display > Appearance and changed the "icons" font fr om 10 to 12.  This had no effect on the Bat Menubar font.  :-(

I still have microscopic  Menubar font and I have to type one-handed 'cause i'm holding a magnifying glass in the other hand. So in a program as powerful as TB - wh ere it takes hours just to skim the Options menu - are you telling me that there's no way to change the Menubar font size!?!?

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If, instead, you create a common virtual folder, you can see the messages as if they had been moved to a common folder but they actually still reside in their own account. This has the advantage that when you reply, it is automatically from the account the message came into.

Hmmmm. Hadn't considered this twist. Thanks for pointing it out.

TC
 
 
 
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Tom Cook wrote:
OK, I went to Display > Appearance and changed the "icons" font fr om 10 to 12. This had no effect on the Bat Menubar font. :-(

I meant that by default it is the same size as the font for the icon labels, and controlled by the same normal/large/extra large font setting. In the advanced settings the control is more fine-grained and it is the "Menu" font size you need to change. And (in XP, anyway) after clicking "OK" in the dialog box where you change it, you also need to click "apply" in the other one.



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I still have microscopic Menubar font and I have to type one-handed 'cause i'm holding a magnifying glass in the other hand.

In Windows XP there is a magnifier tool at Start | All Programs | Accessories | Accessibility  |  Magnifier. Maybe your Windows version has a similar tool.



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So in a program as powerful as TB - where it takes hours just to skim the Options menu - are you telling me that there's no way to change the Menubar font size!?!?

As far as I know, within The Bat! there is no way to change this. I guess if TB! and Windows both tried to control it there would be a potential confilct.
 
 
 
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