Font Sizes

This page explains the steps you need to take to enlarge or reduce the font size of text in your web browser.

It covers the two most popular browsers, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, although there are other well used browsers such as Apple Safari and Netscape.

Below you will find a step-by-step guide to enlarging the text in your internet browser. If you have also changed the settings in your operating system and find that this does not magnify the text enough to be useful, then it is worth investigating screen magnification software.

These instructions are for use with the browser versions listed below, however they may also work with other versions of the same web browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0

• Open your Internet Explorer web browser
• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked "view"
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose "text size"
• Next another drop down menu should appear with options including "small", "medium", "large", "largest"
• Select "largest"

 The text in your browser window should now appear larger. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as screen magnification software.

 

Mozilla Firefox - all Windows versions

• Open your Firefox browser
• Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
• You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
• Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
• If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key

 

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