Tahoe- The font size 16 is missing from the drop menu in applications such as Mail and Text/Edit? I have 14 and then 18. I use 16 a lot, so I would like it in the drop down menu, so I can change the font size quickly. You used to be able to change this in the font settings (Command T) but the gear icon no longer shows.
How do I change font menu sizes in Tahoe?
You can't change the menu but you can select the font size and type 16 directly in the size field.
In addition to what dialabrain said: you could make 16pt your default, that would reduce the number of times you'd need to select it. I spent a lot of time in Mail, and with my age the eyesight is not that great, so I write in 24pt, and do not have to do anything for it.
I do not use TextEdit nearly as much, but you change the default size for it too:
For what it's worth, we're all users here therefor no one here can answer why Apple does anything. You can send Apple feedback about the issue.
I am on Tahoe 26.1. In Apple Mail, my default font for messages is set at Times New Roman 20, as it has been for several years. I still get that as the initial font size, when I start to reply to a message. However, previously I was able to copy material from messages quoted below my reply, and change their font size to 20 in my message text, or indeed to select all the quoted messages and change their font size to 20. But to my surprise the font size 20 is no longer available in the drop-down font size menu - it has 14, 18 and 24, but no intervening sizes such as 20.
Can someone tell me how to change font size of quoted text to 20? 18 is just a bit too small for me, and 24 is considerably too large! dialabrain seems to be suggesting that I can overwrite the fixed font sizes in the drop-down menu, but I am unable to do that.
Thanks - but I have to ask myself what Apple thought users would gain by giving us a more restrictive choice of font sizes in Mail when we updated to Tahoe! Or maybe they just did it because they could ...
That does it! So I select all and COPY, go to the Mail menu bar at the top of the page, chose the Edit menu, and then click 'Paste and Match Style. Result: everything appears in my default style Times Roman 20 point.
Thanks for your help. I have given Apple some feedback, but this certainly solves my problem in a convenient way.
+1 I should have thought of that. 😎
The only way to do it in Mail in Tahoe is to resize the text to 20pt in another app such as TextEdit and paste it in to Mail.
Or, use a different email client that allows you to change it to 20pt.
Dunnit!
You're welcome btw. I'm not quite awake yet. 😎
A possible workaround: Select the text you want; Copy (or Cut, as the case may be); and then do
"Paste and Match Style". If the default text is at 20pt this should do it.
+1 Good idea.
How can I add a font size to drop down menu?? (Tahoe)
