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Making Your Screen Font Smaller Again, Lol

By Deb Peterson, About.com GuideApril 2, 2009

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A week or so ago I blogged about how happy I was to discover how to make my screen font large enough to actually see. This week, in my reports, I noticed that someone searched for how to make the font smaller again. I had to laugh. It never occurred to me.

To make the font larger, press Ctrl + (really the = key, you don't need to use the upshift)

To make the font smaller, press Ctrl -

I hope this helps.

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November 28, 2009 at 9:08 pm (1) cs says:: thanks..i don’t know what i typed in but my fonts became large..i reset the font size a few times but it still the same..never knew it was this easy.
June 8, 2010 at 9:03 pm (2) Tye says:: THANK U!!! I was so frustrated!! GRRRR….This worked perfectly!!!
August 9, 2010 at 10:56 am (3) penny says:: Thank you for this simple and straight forward explanation….I thought my computer had a mind of its own! LOL
November 12, 2010 at 12:49 am (4) Jen Lo says:: Thank You Thank You…….I was getting impatient and then you were there

January 12, 2011 at 10:27 am (5) ali says:: perfect thank u
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 am (6) Mary Lou says:: Thank you, thank you, thank you! From time to time, I would suddenly see a huge font and couldn’t make it smaller. Guess I accidently hit Control + (don’t ask me how!) and couldn’t reverse it. You saved my sanity!
January 27, 2011 at 9:50 am (7) PWHowe says:: Thank you!!! Huge help.
April 5, 2011 at 5:41 pm (8) Mike says:: Thank you Thank you …. my co worker would have killed me.
April 6, 2011 at 7:24 am (9) Deb Peterson says:: Here to serve! Yay for being saved from the co-worker!
September 29, 2011 at 6:50 pm (10) Cool Dood says:: Thank you soo much! That was it…I just hit the wrong key I guess, but now its fixed. You rule!
October 6, 2011 at 7:51 am (11) rosa says:: thanks i tried everything but this did it!
October 18, 2011 at 7:45 pm (12) JAN says:: THANK YOU FOR THE TIP I WAS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME
October 20, 2011 at 2:49 pm (13) Jill says:: Thank you this is the only thing that worked for me.
November 13, 2011 at 10:48 am (14) grateful! says:: thank you so simple so important !
December 1, 2011 at 6:18 pm (15) Amber says:: Thanks, worked for me! I got it that large I was almost only seeing about 6 words on the page! lol
December 2, 2011 at 8:58 am (16) Deb Peterson says:: Oh dear! Yowie.
December 7, 2011 at 9:03 am (17) roma says:: thanx A LOT DEAR IT WAS A GREAT HELP
January 12, 2012 at 10:51 pm (18) Heather says:: Thank you Thank you Thank you!! It was driving me crazy!!
February 1, 2012 at 12:37 pm (19) Grace says:: Thank you so much. I didn’t know how I got the print
so large but I am so thankful for your information
April 27, 2012 at 1:48 pm (20) Pamela says:: THANK YOU….it was like a gremlin in my keyboard. I was just using the pad and suddenly the print grew and grew and grew. I have no idea what in the world happened, but I couldn’t find a way to make it smaller. I will have to save this somewhere, because my swiss cheese memory will NEVER keep it for long!!!

Thanks again!
August 18, 2012 at 12:02 am (21) linda says:: didnt work for me
September 24, 2012 at 7:03 pm (22) Debbie says:: Thank you! I had serched this before but couldn’t find the help I needed. This is SOOOOO simple! Thank you so much. I just got an Acer notebook and every time I accidentally slide my finger a certain way it made the font larger. I had tried to do just the opposite but it didn’t work. Thank you so much!
January 4, 2013 at 12:27 am (23) Diane says:: Deb, I can’t thank you enough for making my night shorter. I thought I would be up until the wee hours of the night. I couldn’t remember how to make my font small again. You are to cool!
April 14, 2013 at 11:27 am (24) Carla says:: I didn’t know what I did to make the font large. Thank you for telling me how to get it back to normal.

Making Your Screen Font Smaller Again, Lol

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