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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 29 Dec 1999.
Re: Experts: Viewing ASCII in IE4, OE--Proportional>Fixed-W

Re: Experts: Viewing ASCII in IE4, OE--Proportional>Fixed-Width???

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:11:54 -0800, "Raymond Haelund" <ray...@fidalgo.net>
provoked the following text:

>I am using IE4 and Outlook Express.  When I try to view ASCII
>messages, the ASCII is all messed up due to my (non-proportional)
>font.  When I click on VIEW, my only font options are the size
>of the font.
>
>When go to [Control Panel/Internet/Fonts] and try to make the
>Fixed-Width font to be my Internet font (so I can create and
>view ASCIIs better) and no matter how I rearrange the Character
>Sets or fonts, I still wind up with proportional fonts.
>(There is no APPLY button for this screen).

In the menubar, click "Tools => Options" an click the tab "Reading". Click the
"Fonts" button and assign Courier New as the proportional font.

That should do it.
-- 
        Peter Punk
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