Changing Font Size in IE, FF, orOpera

[mommalina]

PC Mechanic Tip of the Day
14 Aug 2006

Increase/Decrease the Font Size in Your Browser

If the font on a webpage is too big or too small to read in your browser, here's a little shortcut for quickly changing the size in IE, Firefox, or Opera.

Hold down the CTRL button and scroll up with your mouse's scroll button to increase the font, and down to decrease.

Internet Explorer only has 5 size changes to go up and down, so resizing is limited (go to "View" > "Text Size" to check what setting you're on)

Firefox operates in much the same way, but can go larger and smaller than IE can. Press CTRL+0 to go back to normal size.*

In Opera, you're actually "zooming in" on the page, so it's fairly unlimited as to how far you can zoom in and out. To go back to the normal zoom, hold CTRL and click the scroll button (do not scroll up or down)

* FF Ctrl+O is a new one for me.

Lina

[Terry Hanushek]

Lina

* FF Ctrl+O is a new one for me.
Is that CTRL-zero or CTRL-oh? The quote has zero and you typed oh.

A nitpick for sure but no sense giving yourself a sanity test. :)

Terry

[mommalina]

Lina

Is that CTRL-zero or CTRL-oh? The quote has zero and you typed oh.

A nitpick for sure but no sense giving yourself a sanity test. :)

Terry, it's CTRL+zero ........... CTRL+o and CTRL+O (capital O) both come up with Open File. What would you use that for?

O and 0 are not my only problem with the keyboard. I still lapse into typewriter days and catch myself using l for 1 (elle for number one). Took me a while to figure out why I kept getting back an email. I incorrectly used the letter elle for the number one.

Sharp eye, Terry!

Lina

[Terry Hanushek]

Lina

I still lapse into typewriter days and catch myself using l for 1 (elle for number one). Took me a while to figure out why I kept getting back an email. I incorrectly used the letter elle for the number one.
GADS the goes back a long while. I seem to recall that really old typewriters did not have a '1' (one) key and you had to use 'l' (elle) key. Newer typewriters (Selectrics?) came with a full set of number keys but habits had been formed.

Terry

[mommalina]

Lina
GADS the goes back a long while. I seem to recall that really old typewriters did not have a '1' (one) key and you had to use 'l' (elle) key. Newer typewriters (Selectrics?) came with a full set of number keys but habits had been formed.


My first typing class was in 1944, I think. Manual typewriter. The electric typewriter was not on the market yet. Later on, I had a hell of a time getting used to an electric typewriter, but at least the carriage still went back and forth. Getting used to a Selectric with no moving carriage was another challenge. Getting used to a computer was the biggest challenge of all. .... :doh:

I used to cut out sections of things I typed which needed editing and rearranged them on a new page so I could get a correct, concise, and clear result. (The three C's were my Business English professor's mantra....:hail: ) Delete, undo, cut-n-paste, etc, don't seem as effective.

Lina