# Help! Giant Text Killing My Eyes.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 14, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460 "2003-10-14T22:15:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/1 "2003-10-14T22:15:59Z")

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Ok, I just finished reading an online newspaper and everything was fine. Then I signed on here and the text was gigantic…the whole page was huge. A lot bigger than it usually is. It’s not bigger side to side, though. Just giant text, like I’m looking at the screen through a magnifying glass. Usually I see about ten thread titles on the screen, but now only four fit. I sure could use some help here before my eyes go bad…and any help would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/2 "2003-10-14T22:18:34Z")

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Hold down \<ctrl\> and roll your mouse wheel. All will be well.

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**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/3 "2003-10-14T22:19:36Z")

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OK…nevermind…I went to the top of page(Internet Explorer) and clicked on “view”, then down to “text size”. It was on “large” and I changed it and now looks the way it used to. I’m still wondering how it changed without me doing anything, though.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/4 "2003-10-14T22:22:11Z")

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IS IT OK NOW?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/5 "2003-10-14T22:23:13Z")

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(I suspect you inadvertently did the \<ctrl\>/Wheel thing)

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**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/6 "2003-10-14T23:42:16Z")

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And I suspect you are right. Thanks for the help. I’ll have to be more careful when doing my email with the keyboard in my lap.

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**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/7 "2003-10-15T00:07:57Z")

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My IE flips into large text at random too. You got it, go to View then Text Size and set it back.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-giant-text-killing-my-eyes/207460/8 "2003-10-15T07:27:09Z")

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There are circumstances where mail client settings (particularly Outlook) can cause the IE text size to change against your will.

I can’t seem to find the MSKB article, but I do know that it applies to a broader range of browser versions and mail clients than the article mentions.