Reducing the display to screen size

I have a 17" CRT monitor and find a setting of 1280 x 1024 is Out Of Frequency. But 1024 x 768 worked (was 800 x 600). Had to adjust wondow position, Vertical/Horizontal position/size, and Font size a bit, but fits the screen just right.

It also reduced the size of Tool/Scroll bars increasing window size.

Have a great day.

I too have to scroll quite a bit, including the CNet site. I've set my display to the 800-600 with extra large fonts. The reason? So I can read the text. I have found various sources arrange their web site in different ways. Schwab, e.g., maintains strict controls that make reading their report downloads very difficult. PC World has lately also taken to requiring scrolling for what seems like forever. But, not in all of their reports. That pretty well makes it clear to me that the problem is at the web site. I also require web sites to use my font selection and sizes. Individually, I may have to alter that using "Options" depending on the site, such as Schwab. The underlying problem in my opinion is that certain web site designers are interested in cramming too much information on the page or adding too many bells and whistles. It's too bad some of them are not required to read their own materials on a 17" screen. I have at times resorted to using a magnifying glass, but usually at that stage I just close the window.

If you set your screen resolution one notch higher in the Display/Settings area, you can adjust the desktop and computer fonts in the Appearance area easily for that change. Then when you are on the internet, instead of changing your fonts manually, or having to ignore what's on a website in the Accessability area of Internet Options, just press the CTRL key and move the wheel on your mouse a notch or two in order to change the font size automatically.....and it will stick at all websites from now on. You can change/adjust this at any point at any site and it will hold again.

This way you won't have to scroll back and forth anymore which can be a bear on your hand/shoulder clicking that mouse to do it.

TONI

First, it would sure help if you gave us a little more information...What is the operating system you're using and what font size are you talking about? ON the desktop or in a document or in your browser?

Since this is a thread from quite a while back and it was referring to the desktop display, I'll assume that you're concerned about fonts on your desktop..

To fix that issue, RIGHT click on a blank area of the desktop, choose "Properties" from the menu. Once that loads, then click on the 'Appearance' tab. When that loads, in the lower part of the screen. Choose a 'Font" size that's appropriate..If that doesn't fix the issue and you want smaller fonts on your desktop icons, then click on the "Advanced" button on that same location. When that loads, click on the drop down arrow next to the "Item" selection, choose "Icon" from the list. When that loads, choose a smaller "font" size or a smaller "icon" size. When you're finished, click on "Apply", then OK.
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ON the other hand, if everything on the screen seems to big, then RIGHT click on a blank area of the desktop, choose "Properties", then click on the "Settings" tab. Move the "Screen resolution" slider to a higher number..Something like 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768.

Hope this helps.

Grif

Hope this helps.

Grif

Thanks mate it worked....
Great Thanks....

Big pages don't fit on small screens. That's clear.

Now all details depend on the program you are referring to. In a word processor, for example, setting the pagesize to a smaller format than 'letter' will cause it to show in total on a not too small screen. But you might mean something else, of course.

Kees

Another quick fix is to press "Ctrl" and + or -. The whole page size changes. If you have to shrink the whole page so far that you can't read the text, stop there and move on. Why **** with anybody that doesn't care how much screwing around you have to do? You can find what you want, in a more user friendly format, elsewhere.

- What program is this in?
- What is it showing?
- What is the resolution of your monitor set to?

If a text file in Notepad, set it to wrapping the lines. But, just as well, it could be another program. You didn't tell.

Kees