Sticky Notes on Windows 7

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Is there any way to change the font? All I can do is change the background color.... :confused:
 

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Is there any way to change the font? All I can do is change the background color.... :confused:

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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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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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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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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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! :p
 

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You're welcome Pulstay, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)
 

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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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Thanks, Bill. The microsoft sans serif font is better than the Segoe and I can easily add the bold with ctrl-B and size up or down with ctrl-scroll wheel.

AJ
 

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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.

Good app. Simple yet works great. Thanks for the suggestion! :cool:
 

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