How to Stop Outlook Synchronising View Settings Across PCs

I find changing the font size in Outlook using the options below causes the font size to be synchronised across all PCs. I want to turn off this behaviour since my PCs have different screen sizes and resolutions. Other email accounts e.g. Gmail don't have this behaviour. How can I set and preserve a different font size for each PC?

Just wondering, since I don't have this problem. How many systems run your Outlook? How do they communicate?

bro67 said:

Do not log in with the same Microsoft account and have it sync that info across systems.

That would work but then my contacts won't synch. It would appear this issue is by design - yet another stupid MS software engineering decision.

x509 said:

Just wondering, since I don't have this problem. How many systems run your Outlook? How do they communicate?

Two desktops and two laptops. It seems the view settings are synced via my MS account - yet another stupid MS software engineering decision.

Steve C said:

Two desktops and two laptops. It seems the view settings are synced via my MS account - yet another stupid MS software engineering decision.

Nothing stupid about it. It comes from the normal.dot file that gets sync'd across devices through the account when everything goes through OneCloud.

bro67 said:

Nothing stupid about it. It comes from the normal.dot file that gets sync'd across devices through the account when everything goes through OneCloud.

Their mistake is synching the font sizes which only makes sense if all displays are the same size and resolution.

Steve C said:

Their mistake is synching the font sizes which only makes sense if all displays are the same size and resolution.

If the OP is connected through Exchange, it is saved at the Server side. If through a Microsoft.com account, it is saved locally in the following directory \Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\profile name. xml

bro67 said:

If the OP is connected through Exchange, it is saved at the Server side. If through a Microsoft.com account, it is saved locally in the following directory [FONT="]\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\profile name[/FONT]. xml

The PCs use Exchange

Then you have your answer.