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Mail font bar shifted to the far right – out of screen

Hi everyone!


The font bar in my mail app is shifted to the far right, out of the screen, make it impossible to use it (see screenshot). I saw similar questions about a year ago, but no solution.


Any ideas?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 9, 2021 12:07 PM

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Posted on Mar 11, 2021 11:55 AM

I somehow managed to solve the problem. After just reading various forum threads, I experimented with the plist file in the library (somewhat risky, I know) and managed to get it done. Looks right again now. Thanks for helping!!

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Mar 10, 2021 8:53 AM in response to Fabian_1996_1

I found the plist that controls the viewing of the Text Formatting Tool Bar and the entry to show or hide it, but I'm not finding anything on the position of the toolbar.



The next thing I would try is to quit everything, change your screen resolution via System Preferences > Displays > Display (tab) > Scaled then try Mail again to see if that forces a change in the Compose window formatting.

Mail font bar shifted to the far right – out of screen

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