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    Mail User Guide

    • Welcome
    • What’s new in Mail
    • Get started
    • Switch to Mail
    • Add and manage email accounts
      • Send email messages
      • Edit text and email signatures
      • Send attachments
      • Read and respond to emails
      • Mark emails to revisit later
      • Search for emails
      • Manage notifications
      • Delete emails and manage storage
      • Automatically sort incoming emails
      • Create or delete mailboxes
      • Import or export mailboxes
      • View, save, or delete email attachments
      • Mark up email attachments
      • Protect email privacy
      • Reduce junk mail
    • Change settings
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Copyright and trademarks

    Edit text and email signatures in Mail on Mac

    You can edit the font and style of your text, include special symbols, create email signatures, and use Apple Intelligence* to format your emails.

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    Change fonts and styles

    1. Go to the Mail app on your Mac.

    2. In a new message window, click the Format button in the toolbar.

      The toolbar and formatting options in a new message window indicating the text color, text background color, and text alignment buttons.
    3. Click the button for an option you want to use.

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