Instructions on How to Enlarge Web Text
Is the text on your browser too small to read clearly? Here are instructions for adjusting font sizes on several popular browsers.
If you have a PC and are using a mouse with a jog wheel (scroller button). Just press the control key with one hand while you scroll the wheel up or down with your mouse hand. The text size should change and will stay changed when you reopen your browser.
Internet Explorer
- From the View menu, select "Text Size."
- From "Text Size," choose from smallest, smaller, medium, larger, or largest.
Medium is the installed default.
Firefox
- From the View menu, select the "Increase text size" option
- Alternative method: From the Tools menu, select "options," select the "fonts and colors" button, and choose the "minimum font size."
Safari
- From the Preferences menu, select "Advanced."
- From the "Advanced" menu, select the checkbox to "never use fonts smaller than the selected size."
- Choose a font size from the pop-up menu.
Netscape and Mozilla
- From the View menu, select the "Text zoom" item.
- From "Text zoom," choose from smaller, larger, or a predefined percentage value. The default is 100%.
Opera
- From the View menu, select the "Zoom" item.
- From "Zoom," choose from predefined percentage values or percentage changes. The default is 100%.
