Sticky Notes on Windows 7

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  1. Posts : 46
    Windows 7, of course.
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    Sticky Notes on Windows 7


    Is there any way to change the font? All I can do is change the background color....
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    El Capitan / Windows 10
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    thenext8seconds said:
    Is there any way to change the font? All I can do is change the background color....
    No. It's designed primarily for touchscreens to write with the stylus on the note so the font is superfluous.

    You can, as a workaround, paste preformatted text from a web page or something like Wordpad and it will retain that formatting.
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  3. Posts : 72
    Windows 7 Beta (and others, multiboot)
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    I have used stickies for ages... it works in win7 and is IMO much better then the win7 postit app.

    Yes, it allows font changes, along with many other things.
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  4. Posts : 1
    Windows 7
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    Yeah you just have to use word or something and you can just type a letter for example "i" and then copy and paste onto your sticky note then you can delete the "i" and the font is still changed.
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  5. Posts : 1,011
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Retail)
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    I use a free gadget called "Large Notes" that works great and you can change colors and fonts and size of the sticky notes and save more than one note. It's much better than the native win 7 app, imo. It's a modified version of the original vista gadget. Very light & simple, nothing fancy, but does exactly what I need, no more, no less.
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    thenext8seconds said:
    Is there any way to change the font? All I can do is change the background color....
    Helllo,

    Yes, you sure can. :)

    Sticky Notes - Change Text Format

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  7. Posts : 4
    win7
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    Sticky Notes - Change Text Format

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
    Actually Shawn, it doesn't help. What the poster above wanted, and I want as well, is to change the font itself. What you did was post a link on how to affect the font. While that can be useful, it isn't what all of us really need, which is to change that default font to something more readable.

    Again, I appreciate your work to post your link, but I have to say that Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one. To be able to change the background color, but not the font? I can't see why MS wouldn't allow us to do that. It seems like a trivially easy thing to do.

    At any rate, I'm going to do as other posters have said and use a third party app. Or maybe just go back to firing up notepad when I need a quick note. Notepad, by the way, DOES let you change fonts!
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  8. Posts : 1
    Windows 7
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    Brink said:
    thenext8seconds said:
    Is there any way to change the font? All I can do is change the background color....
    Helllo,

    Yes, you sure can. :)

    Sticky Notes - Change Text Format

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
    Hey Shawn,

    Thanks for the link! I was ok with the font, just wanted it to be a bit smaller. The "tips" you pointed me to, provided me the information to do just that.

    Thanks again! :)
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    You're welcome Pulstay, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)
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  10. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
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    The default font for sticky notes is Segoe Print. If you don't use this font, delete it from your system, after that sticky notes will use MS Sans Serif as the default font.
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