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Accidentally shrunk screen print size, can't figure out fix

by BT5150 Oct 12, 2012 9:06AM PDT

I have an HP laptop running Windows 7. The other day I was on gmail, typing an email when I must have hit some combo of keys and it shrunk the size of the print on the screen, small enough that while I can still read it, it is very annoying. I use Firefox for my browser and even though I had several windows open at that time, only the gmail window had the shrunken print, the other sites stayed the same size. Now, even after restarting Firefox, the gmail print size (and only when I go to gmail) has stayed annoyingly small, I can't figure out how to get it to go back to how it was and it is very annoying. As I mentioned, I'm pretty sure it happened from me accidentally hitting a combination of keys, maybe something using the function or control key, but I have no idea what. Any help is much appreciated!

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At the top is View, check Toolbars and if a check on

by DCL3-22522136767888884502658755989879 Oct 12, 2012 9:39AM PDT

Status Bar. If not, check it. At the bottom right over the date is change zoom level. At the top. is Tools; customize it and add Text Size. usually it's default is Medium but it can go from Largest - Larger - Medium
to Smaller to Smallest. The bottom one can go from 50%, 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, 200% to 400% also has Custom... So you can actually create numbers in between. The normal setting is 100%
WIN7 Home Edition with IE8 Darrell

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Fix print size

by baybreeze Oct 13, 2012 8:10AM PDT

Hello,

I am not sure if you mean the print in your emails is now tiny, or the entire page. If it's your email, like when you write a new email to someone, there is an area right below the subject with various formatting options. If you click the 5th one in from the right, which is two "T"s (tT), you can adjust the font size.

In Firefox, while on the Gmail page, you can click "View" from the very top menu bar, then select "Zoom", then select either "Zoom IN" or "Zoom Text Only".

The other thing that you can do, which is the simplest and quickest fix....and this is for any webpage or email...go to the page you want, hold the the "CTRL" (control) key on your keyboard and while holding down this key, use the scroll button on your mouse and scroll UP to make everything larger. If you want it smaller, just hold down "CTRL" and move the scroll button/wheel DOWN. This method works pretty much with anything.

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