Possible to enlarge text without zooming whole page?

I am switching from firefox back to explorer. The one feature I miss
is the ability to increase font size on a page with ctrl + and
decrease it with ctrl -.

In explorer, those commands increase and decrease the size of the text
but they do it by zooming the whole page. When I get the text big
enough, part of the page is not visible. So this is not really useful.

Can I make the font bigger but not zoom the whole page?

Thanks much!

Sarah

Frank
Tue Mar 25 15:14:28 PDT 2008

"Sarah" <sarah_sonderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0b7c93f6-7379-4a03-9689-4ed50de8d6da@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>I am switching from firefox back to explorer. The one feature I miss
> is the ability to increase font size on a page with ctrl + and
> decrease it with ctrl -.
>
> In explorer, those commands increase and decrease the size of the text
> but they do it by zooming the whole page. When I get the text big
> enough, part of the page is not visible. So this is not really useful.
>
> Can I make the font bigger but not zoom the whole page?
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Sarah
>

Page icon | Text Size
Some pages will not allow this.

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David
Tue Mar 25 17:00:18 PDT 2008

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, try this: While holding down the Ctrl
key, see if rotating the scroll wheel will change the font size. This may not
work on all web pages.

"Sarah" <sarah_sonderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0b7c93f6-7379-4a03-9689-4ed50de8d6da@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>I am switching from firefox back to explorer. The one feature I miss
> is the ability to increase font size on a page with ctrl + and
> decrease it with ctrl -.
>
> In explorer, those commands increase and decrease the size of the text
> but they do it by zooming the whole page. When I get the text big
> enough, part of the page is not visible. So this is not really useful.
>
> Can I make the font bigger but not zoom the whole page?
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Sarah
>

Bob
Tue Mar 25 20:52:38 PDT 2008

Assuming IE7.
On the Page toolbar button choose your desired text size.
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> "Sarah" <sarah_sonderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:0b7c93f6-7379-4a03-9689-4ed50de8d6da@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>I am switching from firefox back to explorer. The one feature I miss
>> is the ability to increase font size on a page with ctrl + and
>> decrease it with ctrl -.
>>
>> In explorer, those commands increase and decrease the size of the text
>> but they do it by zooming the whole page. When I get the text big
>> enough, part of the page is not visible. So this is not really useful.
>>
>> Can I make the font bigger but not zoom the whole page?
>>
>> Thanks much!
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>
>

Kkaiser1
Tue Mar 25 21:16:00 PDT 2008

From the Menu Bar Click View,
Text size,
Select the size you want, from very small to very large.
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"Sarah" wrote:

> I am switching from firefox back to explorer. The one feature I miss
> is the ability to increase font size on a page with ctrl + and
> decrease it with ctrl -.
>
> In explorer, those commands increase and decrease the size of the text
> but they do it by zooming the whole page. When I get the text big
> enough, part of the page is not visible. So this is not really useful.
>
> Can I make the font bigger but not zoom the whole page?
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Sarah
>
>

PA
Tue Mar 25 22:27:49 PDT 2008

Windows version? IE version?
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Sarah wrote:
> I am switching from firefox back to explorer. The one feature I miss
> is the ability to increase font size on a page with ctrl + and
> decrease it with ctrl -.
>
> In explorer, those commands increase and decrease the size of the text
> but they do it by zooming the whole page. When I get the text big
> enough, part of the page is not visible. So this is not really useful.
>
> Can I make the font bigger but not zoom the whole page?
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Sarah

Sarah
Wed Mar 26 13:48:15 PDT 2008

Thanks everyone, I see now. I wish there were a keyboard shortcut
rather than doing this tedious mousing every time I get to a page,
like there is for firefox.

Thanks...

Frank
Wed Mar 26 15:02:29 PDT 2008

"Sarah" <sarah_sonderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:dbc158ac-5093-4608-9073-b62a9d9230e2@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks everyone, I see now. I wish there were a keyboard shortcut
> rather than doing this tedious mousing every time I get to a page,
> like there is for firefox.
>
> Thanks...
>

Alt-V, Alt-X

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Sarah
Fri Mar 28 09:30:47 PDT 2008

On Mar 26, 4:02=A0pm, "Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM"
<franksaund...@mvps.org> wrote:
> "Sarah" <sarah_sonder...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:dbc158ac-5093-4608-9073-b62a9d9230e2@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Thanks everyone, I see now. I wish there were a keyboard shortcut
> > rather than doing this tedious mousing every time I get to a page,
> > like there is for firefox.
>
> > Thanks...
>
> Alt-V, Alt-X
>
> --
> Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WMwww.fjsmjs.com
> Do not reply with email



Thanks Frank. I did that, and then selected a size with the arrow keys
or Alt-G. It chagnes the preference but the text size does not
change???

Sarah

Sarah
Fri Mar 28 09:44:14 PDT 2008

On Mar 28, 10:30=A0am, Sarah <sarah_sonder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 4:02=A0pm, "Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM"
>
>
>
>
>
> <franksaund...@mvps.org> wrote:
> > "Sarah" <sarah_sonder...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:dbc158ac-5093-4608-9073-b62a9d9230e2@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...=

>
> > > Thanks everyone, I see now. I wish there were a keyboard shortcut
> > > rather than doing this tedious mousing every time I get to a page,
> > > like there is for firefox.
>
> > > Thanks...
>
> > Alt-V, Alt-X
>
> > --
> > Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WMwww.fjsmjs.com
> > Do not reply with email
>
> Thanks Frank. I did that, and then selected a size with the arrow keys
> or Alt-G. It chagnes the preference but the text size does not
> change???
>
> Sarah- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Well, I have to modify that. It works on google groups, but not on
some other web pages.

Frank
Fri Mar 28 17:50:18 PDT 2008

"Sarah" <sarah_sonderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 28, 10:30 am, Sarah <sarah_sonder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 4:02 pm, "Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM"
>
> <franksaund...@mvps.org> wrote:
> > "Sarah" <sarah_sonder...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:dbc158ac-5093-4608-9073-b62a9d9230e2@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>
> > > Thanks everyone, I see now. I wish there were a keyboard shortcut
> > > rather than doing this tedious mousing every time I get to a page,
> > > like there is for firefox.
>
> > > Thanks...
>
> > Alt-V, Alt-X
>
> Thanks Frank. I did that, and then selected a size with the arrow keys
> or Alt-G. It chagnes the preference but the text size does not
> change???

Well, I have to modify that. It works on google groups, but not on
some other web pages.


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Some pages, more and more every day, set the text size and tell IE not to
change it.

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