blim Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) Asking for SisterSue---Her IE keeps changing text size all by itself--she goes to "view/text size/medium", works for a while, then it changes itself to "largest size"...?... Anyone know of a fix to keep the text the size she sets it to?It's a Dell Laptop, XP, probably "top of the line", dial up, I think...(remote area)Thanks in advance (I keep convincing her to sign up here. Thanks to you folks, I've already managed to answer some of her questions just from reading the great advice here....she thinks I'm a geek but I always credit this place for the tiny bit I've gleaned...y'all KNOW I'm not a geek! )Liz Edited March 23, 2006 by blim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) If she has Eudora or Outlook .If IE-View-Text Size does not stick....---solution 1If you are using Eudora 4.2 or greater then use Tools-Options-ViewingMail and uncheck "Use Microsoft's viewer"It is Eudora that is setting the IE text size and unchecking thatoption will stop it.The key that Eudora 4.x will change is this:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\International\Scripts\3]"IEFontSize"=hex:02,00,00,00---solution 2In Outlook 2000 go to Tools/Options/Mail Format/Fonts/InternationalFonts, and for each fontchange the "Font Size" entry to your desired size.More info."Larger" font size keeps reverting to "medium" Edited March 23, 2006 by TheTerrorist_75 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) If it's not a technical issue (as referenced in the previous post) it could be "operator error." If she uses the scroll wheel a lot she may be inadvertantly changing the font size. If you're holding a key while scrolling that's an IE shortcut to change the font size. Hmm, to jog my memory of which key to hold I was trying to force the font size here to change, but I can't get it to work here. Instead of IE changing the font size, which I KNOW it is capable of doing by using the scroll wheel, I get sent to previous and next posts. I guess this forum overrides the IE shortcut. Maybe someone else can state how it happens and how you can quickly change it back using the scroll wheel.------ Yeah, Ctrl+Scroll. When the font's changed just click on text somewhere on the page, hold the Ctrl key & scroll up or down to change the font size in IE larger or smaller. (That's the shortcut, the full-length method is: IE's View menu, Text Size option, select the size you want (medium for me). Sidenote: So it didn't work here, but as soon as I went to another site the font had been changed, it was so small it was totally illegible. So, it worked, sort of, just not on this forum's page. Edited March 24, 2006 by JDoors Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) Ctrl > Scroll The scroll wheel needs to be clicked first before you can change font size while scrolling. Edited March 23, 2006 by TheTerrorist_75 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blim Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Thank you very much! I'm sending her a link to this Liz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) hi liz tell her to go to display properties appearences and set fonts to normalapply. ok.you can also set the size of your fonts and screen size by changing the resolutionmarty Edited March 23, 2006 by martymas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blim Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Thanks, Marty, and keep 'em coming, folks, she won't be online to look at the link to this thread till next week (she's on vacation)Liz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blim Posted March 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 (edited) Ooof, grunt , tug, owwww...yup, shamelessly pulling this thread up!SisterSue has been 48 hours with stress free surfing due to that first link, Terrorist *knocks wood* and she says "thank you, thank you, thank you!" I don't know what Eudora is, but she apparently has it and her text size appears to be fixed! And I thank each and every one of you, too! Much love,Liz Edited March 31, 2006 by blim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Ooof, grunt , tug, owwww...yup, shamelessly pulling this thread up!SisterSue has been 48 hours with stress free surfing due to that first link, Terrorist *knocks wood* and she says "thank you, thank you, thank you!" I don't know what Eudora is, but she apparently has it and her text size appears to be fixed! And I thank each and every one of you, too! Much love,LizTell Sue she is welcome. Eudora is an email program Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 hi liz i thought ide replied to your latest post but i got lost recently i posted about an email appli to try and stop spamand chappy replied saying he had used Eudora for several years and he swears by it so if chappy uses it what can i saymarty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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