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hensylee

hensylee

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if you wear glasses and they need changing or if you can't see/read well, just hold down the alt key and run your mouse wheel forward and watch the print grow or backwards if you want smaller print. happy computing

Blessins..........
 
Another computer tip---Paint a fluorescent Green stripe on your computer case and it creates more bandwidth. :D
 
I learned one this week the hard way. While trying to get one of the programs to close out, I did the Ctrl, Alt, delete a few times, or so I thought. To my dismay, the computer screen totally flipped 90 degrees and so did the mouse arrow. OK, what the heck did I do now?? I was too tired to do anything about it, so I just shut off the computer.

The next day, craning my neck to Google the problem with everything akimbo, I discovered that all I had to do was Ctrl, Alt and Up arrow, and it flipped right back.

I guess I inadvertently did that the night before instead of Ctrl, Alt, delete. :)

Hensylee, I tried the mouse wheel thing, it didn't work on my computer, unfortunately. Sounds like a good thing.
 
I believe Ann meant to say: Hold down the "Control" key and scroll.
It works fine here.
Also, I have on the lower right corner of my screen a tiny icon of a magnifier with a + sign on it followed by 100%.
Clicking on the + sign will increase the font size. It's a big help when viewing small print in ads, etc.
 
Thanks Ann for the trick and thanks Bina for clarifying it! It neat! I am always looking for my glasses and sometimes I go to 'view' and change text size to the largest, but not as good as this.:)
 
If you really have problems seeing your screen, go to start/programs/accessories/ accessabilty and choose magnifyer. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how big things can be!
 
Years ago I actually had a plastic Fresnel magnifying lens mounted in front of my (small at that time) monitor so that I could read without straining. Now the larger monitors, adjustable resolutions, and my computer-only prescription glasses do the trick. BTW, the lenses in the glasses are the same power as the middle of my trifocals.

Jim
 
Another feature I seem to always overlook is the zoom feature on IE 7. Down at the right corner of your screen above the clock, you can zoom up to 400%
 
Ross said:
Another feature I seem to always overlook is the zoom feature on IE 7. Down at the right corner of your screen above the clock, you can zoom up to 400%
Click to expand...

Right. That's what I was trying to explain earlier, but I didn't have the terminology. Thanks.:)
(I got IE7 last summer after my computer crashed)

Bina said:
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Also, I have on the lower right corner of my screen a tiny icon of a magnifier with a + sign on it followed by 100%.
Clicking on the + sign will increase the font size. It's a big help when viewing small print in ads, etc.
Click to expand...
 
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