# What did my 1-year-old niece just do to my computer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 8, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992 "2003-05-08T22:53:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/1 "2003-05-08T22:53:38Z")
(well, actually, it was a couple weeks ago.) but anyways, she was messing around with the keyboard. she hit something. ever since every vBulletin message board and certain other sites such as [www.azlyrics.com](http://www.azlyrics.com) but not all sites have like 125% font. i’ve hit like every key and nothing happens. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/2 "2003-05-08T22:54:27Z")
Do you have a wheel mouse? - try \wheel ---
**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/3 "2003-05-08T23:01:21Z")
yeah, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/4 "2003-05-09T00:13:40Z")
Wow! You learn something new about the mouse wheel every day. \ wheel is a shortcut, by the way, for the view-\>text size in IE. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/5 "2003-05-09T02:04:00Z")
Cool! I never knew that either. How did you find out about that, Mangetout? ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/6 "2003-05-09T02:30:17Z")
Geez, I manage to do that by accident constantly. Guess Microsoft doesn’t want you to combine keyboard shortcuts (like CTRL-W) with scrolling. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/7 "2003-05-09T09:29:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thin Ice \* > \*\*Cool! I never knew that either. How did you find out about that, Mangetout? \*\* Stumbled on it by accident, but it is documented _somewhere_, I believe… ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/8 "2003-05-09T12:06:25Z")
I’ve been getting a computer magazine every month for several years now that has tips like that but I’ve never seen that one. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/9 "2003-05-09T14:05:44Z")
Might I suggest also getting a copy of that anti-cat software? If it works for cats, it should work for one-year olds. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/10 "2003-05-09T14:40:03Z")
What ever happened to hitting F1? In IE, hit F1, input ‘font’ in the box & presto: "To display Web page text larger or smaller On the View menu, point to Text Size, and then click the size you want. " ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/11 "2003-05-09T14:45:31Z")
Dontcha wish those guys at Windoze would tell us this stuff? Sheesh… Anyway, I tried this, and on my machine Ctrl + WheelUp is making the font smaller, and ctrl +WheelDown makes it bigger. Isn’t that odd? Shouldn’t it be the other way (presuming this should work at all)? ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-my-1-year-old-niece-just-do-to-my-computer/173992/12 "2003-05-09T14:54:13Z")
Hey, that’s neat. The way I (used) to adjust the size was View/Text Size and chose from Largest/Larger/Medium/Smaller/Smallest. (Win98SE)