Old man eyes need help

In Firefox, try View/Zoom/ZoomIn (or CTRL and the ’=/+’ key).

-- I was walking down the street, something caught my eye, and dragged it 15 feet.

Can you change the screen resolution size? Through control panel ‘display’ settings. It really helped me when I could hardly see text.

-- Einstein: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." I'm Poopiekat!!

The only place I have a problem is posting.

Thanks, Chuck! That does help, but it enlarges everything. That’s cool with me, but the posting area is still considerably smaller than everything else.

Thanks, poopiekat. It’s already set to the maximum.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

Here’s a neat mouse that can do what you want. It’s on sale, too!

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Comfort-Optical-Mouse-D1T-00002/dp/B000A6NV0U

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Thanks, lew! Magnifier function. I need that all the time.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

Hairy…you should see a zoom feature at the bottom of Explorer (magnifying glass with a % number beside it). If you increase the zoom (say to 150% or more) everything in the browser will come in that much bigger.

Or try ctrl +/- to change the zoom.

-- Ian - Life's a game, if you don't play, you can't win.

There is also the option View/Zoom/ZoomTextOnly. If you check that, subsequent zooming will not increase the size of the images. This might help too.

-- I was walking down the street, something caught my eye, and dragged it 15 feet.

Thanks, Ian! I don’t like explorer, I stay with Firefox.

Thanks, Chuck! That zoom text is still the same.

I gotta get to work, I’ll play with it later. By following your suggestions, it has improved.

I hate glasses!

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

For longer stuff, I actually often write in another editor and then copy and paste into my browser. Don’t know how this’d work in your workflow, but maybe keeping WordPad up with settings that work for you, and when you get ready to send your response do a fast Ctrl-A Ctrl-C Alt-Tab Ctrl-V and you’re there.

(I use Emacs for most of my typing, which is fantastic if you’ve devoted the neurons necessary to train your fingers to like it, but probably isn’t a reasonable tool for the average end-user.)

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

Thanks,Dan! That could be an option.

I’m on my laptop now, it is definitely something about Windows 7. This has Vista, the old one at home was XP.

I did not need to enlarge the fonts on those systems,

It’s odd that the only place where the font is very small is here in the body of this field where I am typing my reply.

Right above this block are the icons for Bold, Italic,Link and Insert Image. There is nothing in Show Formatting Reference that applies to font size.

Thanks!

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

If you’re keeping score at home the winner is: use Internet Explorer

It must be something about Firefox. I got away from Explorer a few years ago, it might be time to go back.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

You can also google ‘Windows Magnifier’, there’s an accessibility tool in Windows for the visually impaired that allows you to magnify parts of the screen. This might take some getting used to, but I used to work with a guy who used it very effectively.

-- Ian - Life's a game, if you don't play, you can't win.

Along with the resolution, have you messed with the DPI setting? I showed my father that trick and he’s passed it along to several friends. Or is that what MS is calling “font size” now…

-- ~Mark

Thanks, Ian!
That comes up when I click the Windows “Start” icon. It works good.
This is me learning something new more than anything else.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

No problem…glad to help wherever I can.

-- Ian - Life's a game, if you don't play, you can't win.