Styling fonts in Mail

Hi
Recently my Mail application stopped allowing me to style fonts. Its not a big issue really but it should work, and it used to, now it doesn't.
I can copy and paste styled fonts from older emails. No problem.
However if I want to say make a word bold in Arial to highlight it I get nothing, sometimes it goes smaller instead.
Then again if I try to change the size the word will increase indefinately each time I try it. or instance repeatedly selecting a point size of 11.
Why is this? I'm running regular updates from apple, but none have resolced the problem.
Craig

hello?
is there a solution?

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