How to change generic fonts? - follow-up

Sigh.  I lot of people have answered that default fonts can be selected in 
IE by doing:

     Tools | Internet Options | General | Fonts

However, this only selects the fonts to be used if NO fonts are specified 
on a page, either using CSS or the dreaded FONT tag.  And this is NOT what 
I was asking about.

What I was asking  was how to select the CSS generic fonts:  remember that 
there are five generic fonts defined for the font-family property, namely 
'serif', 'sans-serif', 'cursive', 'fantasy', and 'monospace'.  On my PC the 
generic fonts that IE has chosen for me are not what I would want:  the 
generic sans-serif font is particularly ugly and hard to read.  This makes 
some pages -- for example the HTML 4.01 specs on the W3C site -- really 
hard for me to read.

In Opera it is possible to configure these five generic fonts.  I am 
seeking some way to do the same thing for IE.

Try again, anyone?

> > On my PC (Win98 with IE6), the generic serif and sans-serif fonts are
> > Palatino and News Gothic MS.  For example, if a page specifies:
> >
> >      font-family: sans-serif;
> >
> > then the text appears in News Gothic MS.  I find this font ugly and very
> > hard to read, especially in small and normal font sizes.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can tell IE or Windows to use different generic
> > fonts?  I would like the generic serif font to be (say) Georgia, and the
> > generic sans-serif font to be (say) Arial.  I have searched the web and
> > Microsoft's website, but to no avail.
> >
> > Note that I am NOT asking how to change a user's generic fonts:  only my
>own.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > -
> > Chuck Upsdell
> > Email:     cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
> > Website:   http://www.upsdell.com/
> >

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Chuck Upsdell
Email:     cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
Website:   http://www.upsdell.com/

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