Computer Question: Text Size

Factual Questions
1

I am running W98 on an IBM clone with 288 of RAM and periodically I have to go to View and reset my text size because it will have gone to smallest.

How can I set text size and have it stay there?
Thanks

Quasi

2

You’re talking about Internet Explorer? What version?

3

If you have a wheel mouse, try holding down the control key and rolling the wheel. I use this all the time to resize text in MSIE.

4

(this also works for synaptics touch pads with “scroll regions” enabled)

5

It’s IE6, and I have a trackball mouse, a Logitech.

Thanks

Quasi

6

I hope nobody minds me resurrecting this thread, but I just cured this problem on my own computer; here is the MS article about it:
Font Size Change Is Not Saved in Internet Explorer 5

NB: It also applies to some other versions of IE (at least V6) and it doesn’t just apply to when you are using Outlook in ‘Internet Only’ mode.

7

Mangetout has probably got it, but if that doesn’t solve the problem you might be looking at something rather more complicated. (I once wrote a technical support article on font problems.)

The deal is that, depending on your computer, software, and video card, font size can be set a number of places. The way that they interact and override one another is complicated, so it’s best just to change your font in one place – usually at the application level – that is: in your word processor, Internet browser, games, etc.

The place not to mess with font size / color is at the video card level. If you’re having problems, it’s also better not to mess with font size in Control Panel > Display > Appearance. If you’ve messed with either of those, see whether you can set them back to the default values.

There’s a bit more to this, but the bottom line is not to mess with font size unless there’s a compelling reason.