"Morgans" wrote in message
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You are right, I didn't check. To me, his message is readable, but id
about 25% smaller print, which makes it hard for my farsighted eyes to
see. Is there a way to make it larger? I'm no computer geek, either (as
you guessed) so I don't know.

Yes. In the Tools/Options... dialog, click on the "Read" tab, then the
"Fonts" button at the bottom. In the big list, click on "Unicode" and then
set the font to whatever suits you. You may want to set the font for both
"UTF-7" and "UTF-8" encodings, as long as you're there (you can select the
encodings with the "Encodings" drop-down list box, near the bottom of that
dialog).

You may find that you prefer to set the both the "Proportional" and
"Fixed-width" fonts to a font that's actually fixed-width. For example,
"Courier New" or "Lucida Console". I don't see any point in reading any
post on Usenet with a proportional-spaced font, since no post will depend on
have a proportional-spaced font, but some may only look correct with a
fixed-width.

On the other hand, some people find proportional-spaced fonts easier to
read, and may not care about "ASCII graphics" looking right. If you're such
a person, you may find that you prefer a proportional-spaced font for both
choices.

Pete