[MelodyL]

Hi, My husband has a hard time reading the messages on certain forums. He wears bi-focals and last night I noticed him going up to the screen and it took a long time and some words he couldn't make out.

I asked him, "would it be easier if I could make the text look bigger in the posts?" He said "are you kidding, that would be great".

So what I first did was go on my computer, go to display, appearance and increased the font size to extra large. That was great for the icons and for the stuff on my favorite places. They got bigger immediately.

But on the forums (most notably, the PN forums, and some other forums I belong to), the text size is still the same.

Is there a thing that I can do to enlarge the text so when my husband is viewing a particular thread he doesn't have to squint so hard???

Thanks
Melody

[Jomar]

you did the first option that I was going to suggest - but sometimes that only helps a little bit.

I just double checked the IE 6 Tools/internet options {i didn't upgrade to IE7 because I don't use it much} and it doesn't have a setting to force the webpages to use your font of choice.
The Mozilla Firefox browser does have a option like that, but I haven't used it yet.

But you might try setting the font to a different style and it might have wider spacing or just better readability.
I don't remember what the generic one is but I changed mine to verdana and lucida console- those seem to be easier for me to read.

another option is to get him some cheap reading glasses that stay right at the computer.
vision clinics also do have specific glasses for computer use- because the distance is a bit farther than normal book reading distances.
hope that helps

[MelodyL]

Thanks Jo:

By the way, I upgraded to Internet 7 last week. Hated it. Has to many bugs.
So I did a system restore to before I had it and now I have my old IE6 back and back it shall stay.

I'm still searching for a way to increase text.

Alan won't buy cheap reading glasses. They ruined his eyes once.

I'll do the options resizing thing. maybe it will help.
Thanks much.
Melody

[nide44]

Mel,
Habve you tried the change quick trick? :-) :
-Place your cursor on a blank part of any page.
-Hold down the control key (Cntrl) and
-Hold down the left mouse key (click)
(I use my 1st finger)
(while holding down both of these)
-scroll the mouse wheel towards your body.
(I use my middle finger)
-Let up on the key and mouse, and you should have larger text.
Practice will allow you to get any size that is comfortable for reading.

[Brian]

Bob's info is very good if you have a wheel mouse, but if you haven't and are still having problems,

If using " Firefox " - just go to the top of the page and click on VIEW then just run down it to you see TEXT SIZE , you have an option to increase or decrease the FONT size,

If using Internet exployer ",- its the same deal but the options are " largest, larger, medium, smaller, smallest.", i think by default in Internet Exployer its set on medium., so there's 2 sizes larger to go for.