Email Appears Blank

Summary

This article provides suggested resolutions for white on white emails that appear as blank in Outlook.

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Overview

An email appearing blank in Outlook due to white on white can be caused by font color, hardware acceleration, or corrupted cache, and can be fixed by adjusting font color settings, disabling hardware graphics acceleration, or clearing the cache.

 

Problem

Opened an email and it is only showing links.  Everything else appears blank.

 

Resolution

Scroll through the open email and try to highlight text.  If text is highlighting then there is clearly text in the email but it is set to white on white.

In New Outlook

Settings > Mail > Compose and reply > Message format > Select color

In Classic Outlook

File > Options > Mail > Stationary and Fonts > Composing and reading plain text messages > set font color to automatic

 

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Article ID: 20142
Created
Mon 11/3/25 5:08 PM
Modified
Sat 11/29/25 11:43 PM

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