# What is resetting my text size in Internet Explorer?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 15, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-resetting-my-text-size-in-internet-explorer/207649 "2003-10-15T21:10:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-resetting-my-text-size-in-internet-explorer/207649/1 "2003-10-15T21:10:27Z")

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Several times a day I find that the text size in IE is changed from Large to medium. At first I thought it was a web site, but I can’t track it to one and I basically surf the same places at home that I surf here at work and it doesn’t happen at home. Anyone have any insights?

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-resetting-my-text-size-in-internet-explorer/207649/2 "2003-10-15T21:57:03Z")

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Ctl+mouse wheel adjusts the text size, so it’s possible you may be doing this accidentally. If your work mouse has a wheel and your home mouse doesn’t, that would nail it.

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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, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-resetting-my-text-size-in-internet-explorer/207649/3 "2003-10-15T22:25:43Z")

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Under certain circumstances, your email client (particularly if you’re using Outlook or Outlook Express) can cause the selected IE text size to reset.

There’s some info about it here:  
[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;242984](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;242984)

NB: it affects more versions of IE and is impacted by more mail clients than those few listed in the article.

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-resetting-my-text-size-in-internet-explorer/207649/4 "2003-10-16T01:31:16Z")

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Mangetout, that nailed it. Outlook seems to reset it when I open an email. Thanks.