Graham Price wrote: > Howdy all > Slightly off-list. > This is something that happened to me the other day, and I am still > not sure how it occurred. I started my computer and on the desk-top > there appeared a small window in the background with VERY BIG > magnification of one of my email pages. Goodness, I thought, this is a > wonderful thing for folk whose sight is diminished, though me having > had eye ops recently did not need it, so I sought a means of deleting > it from my desk-top. Eventually I was successful. It seemed strange as > to why and how it suddenly appeared, though I expect it was from a > Microsoft Windows automatic update over the internet, or somehow I had > accidently triggered it off from within XP. Anyway, as there was some > mention on one of these lists recently about needing to view things in > BIG PRINT because of eyesight problems, I thought this might be > helpful for those (of us) who have failing eyesight. It seems that > this facility is already ensconced within Windows XP, though you can > download it (probably only for XP though) from > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Hi Graham, You can do this without any extra software!! Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7 for Windows (1) Select "View" from the menu at the top of the browser (2) From the drop-down menu, select "Text Size" (3) Select the required size (IE7: Keyboard shortcuts: Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press either the '+' or the '-' keys) (IE7: Status Bar shortcut: Select the magnification required using the magnify icon in the bottom left hand corner of the screen) [IE7 beta is available from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx] Mozilla Firefox 1.5 for Windows (1) Select "View" from the menu at the top of the browser (2) From the drop-down menu, select "Text Size" (3) Select either "Increase" or "Decrease" as required (Keyboard shortcuts: Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press either the '+' or the '-' keys) Opera 8.51 for Windows (1) Select "View" from the menu at the top of the browser (2) From the drop-down menu, select "Zoom Size" (3) Select the zoom value required (Keyboard shortcuts: Press either the '+' or the '-' keys) Ian

At 07:48 PM 3/04/2006, Ian Edwards wrote: >Hi Graham, >You can do this without any extra software!! > >Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7 for Windows >(1) Select "View" from the menu at the top of the browser Ian, I don't doubt your helpfulness in any way, but I'm not sure this works on all levels. Of course one can select viewer, etc., and go to the largest type if you wish with a click, which surely does improve things greatly, but I certainly could not find any magnify icon in Microsoft Explorer. Dead as a toad in Toad Hall, I might say! Neither did the keyboard shortcuts do anything but stare at me like I was a bride left at the altar. Hopefully not Frankenstein's Bride? Surely something more simple is necessary? The upgrade from MS seems to do it. Anyway, I pass this on to those of higher intelligence on the list - try it out and come back to us, please, for we do this for the benefit of those who are long suffering in diminished eyesight. Hah, not me any longer, for I have had the operations and can see a midge where before it was not there! Cheeky so and so am I not? Come back to us -- report your findings! Graham