For Squint, Try Zoom
July 30th, 2009Maybe your eyes are good enough and you have no trouble seeing what’s on the screen. Mine used to be like that. Now I need a little help. If you need a little help, here’s what you can do.
Word has a “Zoom” feature that makes the document you’re working on look 10%, 20%, 30%… larger without changing anything else on the computer. And it remembers this “magnification value” so that the next time you open the same document, it opens again magnified.
Try it. Open Word and look for the tool near the top of the screen. It’s a little white box with a number followed by a percent sign (“%”) in it. To the right of the box is a down-pointing arrow (“▼”). Click on that arrow and you’re given a choice of magnification values. Try several different sizes and stop when you get the size you like. If you don’t like one of the pre-chosen settings, try your own value. Zoom doesn’t change your document, it only changes the size it is shown to you.
Excel and PowerPoint and Adobe Reader and many other programs also have Zoom.
Zoom can also be found under the View menu.
You can Zoom smaller too if you need to see more than one page at a time on the screen.
Internet Explorer also has Zoom in two places. The first is under the View menu. The second is on the screen in the lower right-hand corner of the browser window.
Give it a try!
-LLiioonneell
Lionel Goulet
Te Deum
