Quickly scale your text

Posted by Joe Vandal
October 27, 2006

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I have a quick but powerful technology tip this week: how to quickly scale your text larger and smaller. This works great in your web browser and in Microsoft Word, and you do not have to dig through any pull-down menus, either.


All you have to do is hold the “Control” key down on your keyboard and at the same time move the scroll wheel on your mouse up or down. You’ll immediately see your text grow larger or smaller.

Try it now on IdahoFallz.com, you’ll see how flexible we are.

If you want to return the size to normal (default) and are not sure what the “normal” size was, just click on the pull-down menu “View >Text Size > Normal” (or Control+O). In the recently released Internet Explorer 7 browser, they moved the menus around. You’ll find the same function on the right side under “Page > Text Size > Medium”

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Comment # 1 by Mike Myers on October 27, 2006 @ 8:55 am  
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That’s cool Joe! I like to move it back and forth real fast. It’s like the unnecessary zoom thing they used to do on Wayne’s World.

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Comment # 2 by Joe Vandal on October 27, 2006 @ 8:57 am  
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It’s a neat little quick trick that should be demonstrated to older people especially. Their eyesight may not be so great, and they probably don’t know they can immediately adjust web pages so they can enjoy them more.

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