Quick Temporary ZOOM When Reading Text Online

SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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Just learned that if you hit Ctrl and +, you can quickly zoom the page you're reading, click the plus as many times as you need to. When you're done and want to return to normal size text, just hit Ctrl and - to get back to the way it was.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Just learned that if you hit Ctrl and +, you can quickly zoom the page you're reading, click the plus as many times as you need to. When you're done and want to return to normal size text, just hit Ctrl and - to get back to the way it was.
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Additionally if you have a scroll wheeled mouse holding the ctrl key down and scrolling up or down will do the same thing.
 
Thanks, Son, much easier than my old method....Clicking my heels, three times..... and singing the ZOOM theme song!:eek:nthego:
 
Yes I've used both those tips for a long time...also if you have a scroll wheel on the top of your mouse then clicking it down once will mean you can do a fast scroll to the bottom of the page without turning the wheel to scroll all the way down the page. Just click again to take the fast scroll off again when you don't need it.
 
hollydolly said:
Yes I've used both those tips for a long time...also if you have a scroll wheel on the top of your mouse then clicking it down once will mean you can do a fast scroll to the bottom of the page without turning the wheel to scroll all the way down the page. Just click again to take the fast scroll off again when you don't need it.
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Oh yeah, will hold your ctrl/alt down and tap your directional arrows to see what that does.
 
Sea, As usual good tip. The other tips very useful as well. :). I mostly have to use touch on this tablet screen not the keyboard to enlarge text,this has its pluses and minuses due to my jumpy fingers.
 
Hey Son. You had me scared for a moment but I was able to get everything right-side-up.

That was a new one for my. It helps to get pictures right-side-up when they send them that way.

Thanks for the tip.
 
Here's for those that maybe tilting their heads after actually following my suggestion.

Ctrl+Alt+↓ - Flip the screen upside down.
Ctrl+Alt+→ - Rotate the screen 90° to the right.
Ctrl+Alt+← - Rotate the screen 90° to the left.
Ctrl+Alt+↑ - Return the screen to the standard landscape orientation.
 
Son_of_Perdition said:
Here's for those that maybe tilting their heads after actually following my suggestion.

Ctrl+Alt+↓ - Flip the screen upside down.
Ctrl+Alt+→ - Rotate the screen 90° to the right.
Ctrl+Alt+← - Rotate the screen 90° to the left.
Ctrl+Alt+↑ - Return the screen to the standard landscape orientation.
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None of those work on Win 7.
 
AZ Jim said:
Doesn't work on my win 7. Later I'll try it on win 8.1...
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Some graphics card adapters support shortcuts to change the display orientation. You can use these shortcuts to quickly switch between orientation modes. These shortcuts are most likely to work if you are using an Intel integrated graphics adapter. For many users of Nvidia or AMD cards, these shortcuts will not work.

Here's a much better site for information about shortcuts for all Win OS's

http://www.shortcutworld.com/index.php
 
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