Why not keep it functional while adding some liveliness and color, or just switch the default font to something cleaner, bigger and more legible?
Fortunately, you can customize the display of news items in NewsGator almost without limits. Unfortunately, it's not entirely trivial.
You need at least basic knowledge of CSS and no fear for editing files by hand. Equipped with these ingredients, let the fun begin!
To customize the way news items are displayed in NewsGator:
- Open the NewsGator folder in Windows Explorer.
- The default location is \Program Files\NewsGator.
- If you have trouble finding the NewsGator folder, search for ngstyle.css.
- Open ngstyle.css in a text editor.
- Notepad will do fine, as do Vim, Emacs, or any other plain text editor.
- Of course, you can also use a CSS editor for more comfortable editing.
- To start customizing, define styles for the body element.
To select Verdana as the display font, for example, use something like the following:
body {
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 10pt;
}
To try the new style, you don't have to restart Outlook. Just select a news item in NewsGator and it will use the newly defined looks.
