Enlarge Text in Your Web Browser

Internet Explorer

1. From the View menu, select "Text Size."
2. From "Text Size," choose from smallest, smaller, medium, larger, or largest. Medium is the installed default.

1. Increase your font by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing = (i.e. the + key)
2. Decrease it by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing -

1. If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can hold down the Ctrl key and use the scroll wheel to increase or decrease font size

Firefox

1. From the View menu, select the "Increase text size" option

1. From the Tools menu, select "options,"
2. select the "fonts and colors" button, and choose the "minimum font size."

1. Increase your font by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing = (i.e. the + key)
2. Decrease it by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing -

1. If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can hold down the Ctrl key and use the scroll wheel to increase or decrease font size

Netscape & Mozilla

1. From the View menu, select the "Text zoom" item.
2. From "Text zoom," choose from smaller, larger, or a predefined percentage value. 100% is the installed default.

1. Increase your font by holding down Ctrl and pressing =
2. Decrease it by holding Ctrl and pressing -
   Note: This does not apply to older versions of Netscape. We suggest upgrading Netscape if this is the case.

Opera

1. From the View menu, select the "Zoom" item.
2. From "Zoom," choose from predefined percentage values or percentage changes. The default is 100%.

1. Increase your font by holding down the Ctrl key and Shift and pressing = (i.e. Ctrl and +)
2. Decrease it by holding Ctrl and pressing -

1. Alternatively, if your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can hold Ctrl and use the scroll wheel to increase or decrease font size

Safari

1. From the Preferences menu, select "Advanced."
2. From the "Advanced" menu, select the checkbox to "never use fonts smaller than the selected size."
3. Choose a font size from the pop-up menu.

1. Simply hold the Command key and press the + key to enlarge text, or the – key to decrease it.

1. Select View from the menu bar.
2. Click Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller

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