# Giant fonts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 22, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494 "2000-07-22T22:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![APB9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB9999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB9999)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/1 "2000-07-22T22:28:40Z")
Okay, I put my feet up on my desk and I obviously hit something. My display of the message board is now HUGE: the fonts all look like they’re size 18. Everything else is normal; the browser fonts, the desktop, etc. How do I fix this? ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/2 "2000-07-23T04:29:20Z")
If you have Internet Explorer : Go to \*\*File, View, Text Size \*\* then pick whatever size you want, default is Medium If you have Netscape : just keep on pressing Ctrl and the **[** key ---
**Author:** ![APB9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB9999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB9999)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/3 "2000-07-23T05:39:29Z")
Oh, duh. That worked, thanks. I wonder how it got changed in the first place? I didn’t pick anything off a menu. ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/4 "2000-07-23T06:14:02Z")
No problem 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/5 "2000-07-24T00:38:14Z")
sig test ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/6 "2000-07-24T17:59:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by APB9999 \* > Oh, duh. That worked, thanks. I wonder how it got changed in the first place? I didn’t pick anything off a menu. What OS are your using? Windows? When you put your big clodhoppers on the desk, did you by any chance hit the keys \v x g? (Keep your finger down on the \ key and type in those letters to see what I mean.) ---
**Author:** ![APB9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB9999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB9999)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/7 "2000-07-25T01:45:55Z")
Thanks, I’ll pass until I know what it does and how to undo it. BTW, can I make fonts in a post different sizes for other readers? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-fonts/26494/8 "2000-07-25T20:45:49Z")
**APB9999** , my message was unnecessarily cryptic I suppose. Do you use the Windows OS? If so, like at the menus in your Windows applications. You will see that the text descriptions in the menus have a letter underlined. This means that you can pull down the menu by using the \ key and the underlined letter. In my version of Inernet Explorer, the keys \ v x g pull down the menu “View -\> Text Size -\> Largest”. There is no way (with the SDMB’s implementation of vBulletin) to change font sizes in a post.