Please provide details. Are you wanting to change font at the time you're typing a message? Or are you trying to set up default font, whether HTML or not.

Please provide details. Are you wanting to change font at the time you're typing a message? It is any time I type a message. I often want to make some paragraph or a title highlighted by making it larger or smaller.

By the italics and bold works always. This communication I'm typing on now doesn't look like a Thunderbird email. It doesn't even offer font size change. Could it be your Thunderbird engine is exactly this one and. So I guess that's my suggestion. Since Font change doesn't work and never has, remove it.

Font change works very well, so I am puzzled on what you do when you are writing a message. In fact, Thunderbird provides more font options than any other email client with which I have ever worked.

What can I do to get it to work for me? By the way it is NOT Font options, it is Font Size options. Can I get you to demonstrate that size works for you by copying this message to an email letter to me with each line a different size font. My email address is walterClark@roadrunner.com Please don't use this email environment because it is honest in that it doesn't allow font size change. Use normal Thunderbird. Thanks Walt

Email sent.

I don't see it. My email address again is walterclark@roadrunner.com

it may be in spam. I write from a little-used domain.

I don't have a spam folder. That I know of. And no one has ever complained to me not getting something. Maybe I don't know what a spam is. I've uploaded an image of what I have. Your message is in none of these. Perhaps there's a Spam folder I'm unaware of. Please don't give up. I do appreciate you helping me here. I am quite fond of Thunderbird and I do pay a monthly support for it.

Look in "Junk Email" and "Junkmail".

I looked earlier and just now, nothing in those folders. Please try again. I get rougly 2 dozen emails a day and have been working with Thunderbird for at least 12 years, maybe longer and at no time have I had to say "I didn't receive your email yet" to them over the phone or when I met them.

walterClark@roadrunner.com.

In your account settings, under "junk settings", where do you direct junk messages?

Do you use message filters?

I do not direct junk messages to any folder. See attached image. Please try again.

email resent using personal email. I do not normally do this as you are the only person ever to demand PROOF that we we say is true.

I wouldn't send a personal e-mail message to prove that something works either.

Walter, are you trying to change the font size of text that you type or of something that you have pasted into a compose window? How are you trying to change font size? You compose in HTML, right? And you use the buttons above the body text area while composing to change the font size? Do they then change on your screen or not?

But setting bold and italics works? And your recipients see the bold and italicized text?

What do you mean by "inherit text in the process of a reply"?

You have posed questions in other threads about text styling, and you are repeating the question about styling pasted text here again. David has told you before:

Please also consider that copied content retains any style settings it had and those are imparted into the email. To ensure that the formatting is done by Thunderbird, first paste into a text editor, such as Notepad, and then copy from there to Thunderbird.

And Matt has explained:

Fundamentally you have to look at the source of your text before you even think about complaining. Microsoft Word and other application software generally classed as "Word processors" are designed to place marks on paper. They are mostly very good with old fashioned typography. Not so much with modern copy and paste as the capability of the destination is unknown.

A good example of that is when you paste from Microsoft Word. I was playing with the process for another support topic just a couple of days ago. Pasting from word a small sentence "Some silly text" from word to Thunderbird with a hyperlink under silly. In plain text terms 16 characters was placed on the system clipboard by word for me to paste. However Thunderbird if it has a choice will paste formatted HTML text. Sure enough word had placed the information on the clipboard also as HTML. A block of code 39,633 character long was what was offered. Including extensive cascading style sheets that were not even used. So just because there is an issue in Thunderbird the source might not be Thunderbird.

Just to be sort of complete, word also placed rich text formatted text, plain text, an enhanced meta file image of the text and a binary object that could be used for object linking and embedding among others. Pressing copy is an apparently simple function, but what happens under the hood is complex and can involve a lot of moving parts.

Matt and David know what they are talking about.

No, this forum is not an e-mail environment.

Scooter and David, I can't get the thumbs-up icon to accept my click, so I'm thanking you here. Especially valuable was "first paste into a text editor, such as Notepad, and then copy from there to Thunderbird." I have an open Notepad file I use for that purpose in a GPS website. I'm good at it. I was rather hoping that Shift-Crtl-V would the the equivalent of "first paste into a text editor" trick. Walt