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Change Yahoo! Messenger Online Friends’ Name Fonts in Windows 7

By Codrut Nistor

Posted in How-to, Software, Windows-7

Yahoo! Messenger is one and only chat messaging application that allows users to modify the way online friends list contacts are displayed. With the help of its versatile interface the software offers complete control on the application to the users using which they can even modify the way online friends their friends’ list are displayed. Granularity of the controls can easily be experienced by going through the interface that allows users to configure the font and size used to display the names of online friends in the friend’s list. This configuration although is not very important for any user working or non-working however just to give an attractive look to the application users can still use this feature. As a Yahoo! Messenger user in Windows 7 if you want to modify the font and its size used to display the names of online friends you are required to follow the steps given below:

  1. Provide appropriate credentials in Yahoo! Messenger interface to logon to the application.

  2. Go to Messenger menu and then click on Preferences option.

  3. On the opened box from the left pane click on Appearance category.

  4. From the right pane click on Tahoma (8) button under Font and color for online friendssection to modify the default configuration.

  5. Click on Ok button to finalize and save the changes.