The Chronicles
October 2008
Salutations dear readers and fellow Laurentian neighbors,
This month's article is going to be GREAT news for anyone out there with less than 20/20 eye-sight, bad hearing or difficulty in controlling your movements. This “trick of the trade” is a little gem and one that my clients, quite frankly, ADORE.
Did you know that it is possible to make most everything on your screen bigger, to change auditory warnings to visual ones and to help with the use of the mouse and keyboard? Additionally, the good news is that these changes will take effect permanently which means that when you restart your computer it will not change back to the previous settings. Let me give you examples of the most popular elements which can be made to look bigger:
* Title bars,
* Window borders,
* Icons,
* Menus (including the information contained in the "Start" button),
* The mouse pointer,
* The width of the cursor,
* Message Boxes,
* Scrollbars and so on ...
This said it is important to note that this does not mean that the text contained within eg. Word and Internet Explorer becomes bigger. Let me therefore show you how to do the latter right now. This modification will not, however, be permanent and therefore must be repeated whenever necessary.
Once you've opened Internet Explorer, at the bottom right hand corner you will notice "100%" with an arrow pointing downwards next to it. It you click on this arrow, you will see that you can zoom-in or out of the information within the window, though in increments of 25% only. If you would like to perform this task at smaller increments go about it as follows:
Whilst still in the Internet Explorer window, click and hold down the Control (CTRL) button and roll the wheel found on the mouse. Roll it away from and towards you and you'll see the text getting bigger and smaller. If you do not have a wheel in your mouse then use the CTRL with the + or the - (the increments will be of 10%). Isn't that just wonderful and oh so practical?
Bye for now and look after yourselves!
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This article originally appeared in Main Street – The Laurentians' English Language Community Newspaper.
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