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Text size Microsoft Internet Explorer
Category: Computers Asked by: cycas-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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06 Jan 2003 07:14 PST
Expires: 05 Feb 2003 07:14 PST Question ID: 138227 |
Apart from going to View and Text size and adjusting to largest is there any other way to increase the text size to a text size larger than largest? | |
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Re: Text size Microsoft Internet Explorer
Answered By: cerebrate-ga on 06 Jan 2003 08:36 PST Rated:  |
Dear cycas-ga,
There is a way to do this using Internet Explorer's accessibility
features. I'm afraid it's a little complex, but does work quite well.
You need to create a file on your machine containing the following
lines:
body { font-size: 24pt }
pre { font-size: 24pt }
td { font-size: 24pt }
Save it somewhere on your hard drive, and name it "local.css". In this
case, the "24" is the point size you want standard text on the web
pages you view to appear as. You can use Word or WordPad to determine
which size you want this to be, and just substitute the number instead
of the "24" in the file.
Then, in IE, go to "Tools", "Internet Options", and then to the
"General" tab in the "Internet Options" notebook. Click on the
"Accessibility..." button at the bottom right of the notebook.
Check the "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages" check box, and
also the "Format documents using my style sheet" check box. Then click
the "Browse..." button and locate the file which you created earlier.
Click "OK" and "OK" again. You should see the results immediately.
This tells IE to ignore the font sizes - if any - specified by the
creator of the web site, to avoid inconsistency, and instead to take
font size information from the style-sheet file you created. In the
sample file, I specified a new size for the "<body>", "<pre>" -
fixed-size text - and "<td>" table cell - tags, which should affect
99% of all text, although some more obscure tags and text which, for
example, is placed on the page as an image rather than literal text
will not be affected.
If this answer isn't quite what you're looking for, please feel free
to request a clarification.
Hope this helps,
cerebrate-ga
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Re: Text size Microsoft Internet Explorer
From: kamran-ga on 06 Jan 2003 08:46 PST |
Dear cycas-ga, A much simpler method of changing text size (if you have a wheel mouse) is to hold down the ctrl key on the keyboard and to roll the wheel on a wheel mouse. If you roll the wheel up (away from you) the text gets bigger and if you roll the wheel down (towards you) the text gets smaller. Hopefully this will solve your problem without having to get into complex processes. kamran-ga |
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Re: Text size Microsoft Internet Explorer
From: cerebrate-ga on 06 Jan 2003 09:44 PST |
Dear kamran-ga, Indeed it does; however, this is just another method of changing text size within the scope of the options available within Internet Explorer. cycas-ga indicated in his clarification response that he wanted to be able to change the size to one beyond the scope of those options. Regards, cerebrate-ga |
| Subject:
Re: Text size Microsoft Internet Explorer
From: cycas-ga on 06 Jan 2003 11:47 PST |
dear kamran-ga I have an IBM thinkpad T22 with a track point.Can I use the track point instead of the wheel? |
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Re: Text size Microsoft Internet Explorer
From: owain-ga on 06 Jan 2003 13:00 PST |
If you're willing to change browser, Opera (www.operasoftware.com)
allows you to set up a similar local stylesheet - and toggle between
web style and local style with a screen icon (or keyboard shortcut) -
no going through menus.
(from the Opera help file):
Opera has two "modes" called "Author mode" and "User mode".
Author mode lets you see the Web page as the author intended, while
user mode lets you change the style to your preference.
Conveniently, the modes each contain two full groups of settings.
You can switch between the full groups of settings simply by clicking
the mode button on the address bar, rather than changing the settings
one by one.
However Opera can also enlarge/reduce the screen print from one-fifth
to ten times normal size (in either web style or local style mode).
This also enlarges images, which is useful as many sites use image
buttons for navigation. Text will re-wrap to fit the screen as
intended. You can set a default magnification, and change on a
page-by-page basis. You can also maximise individual frames of a
frames-based website to full-screen for magnification, disable frames,
have borders round links, and present text in tables as ordinary text,
if that makes reading easier.
Opera is available in adware (does not use spyware) or paid-for
versions, and is a much smaller download than IE. It also performs
well on less powerful hardware.
Owain |
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