# Help! My font is HUGE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676 "2003-04-19T19:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/1 "2003-04-19T19:08:16Z")
I didn’t touch anything I wasn’t supposed to, I promise. It changed overnight, and now I can’t fix it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/2 "2003-04-19T19:22:16Z")
You didn’t reply to one of those breast enlargement spams, by any chance? Oh, sorry, I thought you said “My front is huge.” Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/3 "2003-04-19T19:24:25Z")
If you mean your Internet Explorer font, go to View \>\> Text Size. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/4 "2003-04-19T19:44:59Z")
You probably held down CTRL while scrolling the mouse wheel. You should be able to use the process in reverse to undo the damage. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/5 "2003-04-19T20:22:59Z")
But look at it this way, you can now fit twice as much holy water in it as you used to be able to. ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/6 "2003-04-19T22:27:25Z")
Oddly enough, I just had the same problem. Thanks guys. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/7 "2003-04-19T22:37:18Z")
You should have never responded to those popup ads! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/8 "2003-04-19T23:01:55Z")
I thought this thread was called: ‘Help! My fo **o** t is HUGE!’–I was having visions from Monty Python! ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-font-is-huge/169676/9 "2003-04-19T23:04:03Z")
[macho man voice] Huh! You think _your_ font is big! Mine’s so big I can’t even dangle a participle, without stepping on it. [/macho man voice]