Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature

Microsoft's apparent ambition to make Outlook the worst email client for Mac shows no sign of fading after a recent update broke font selection in emails. The problem occurs when composing an email. Outlook uses the default font as the user types, but will ignore any request to select something different. Several threads have appeared on Microsoft's forums about the issue, and a moderator confirmed that something was amiss in a post on July 8. One workaround is to roll back to an earlier version