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Old July 15th 17, 02:16 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Linea Recta[_2_]
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Seymore4Head wrote:
I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the
magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it
magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy.

I would like to see one of these two features in later versions.
Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I
would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that
only magnifies what is inside the window.


CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller. This is
true in both Windows and Linux. I don't know about Apple.




Thanks, this is sensational. I tried this in my mail client and it actually
works!
I have been wrestling with some mails with ridiculous small text and even
installed a TTS app to read them.
(I only knew the display menu for text size in windoes mail, but this only
has few
settings and the largest is still small)




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Old July 15th 17, 02:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Ken Blake wrote:

I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the
magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it
magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy.

I would like to see one of these two features in later versions.
Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I
would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that
only magnifies what is inside the window.


CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller.




Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel.

For both methods, this is a Windows standard and works in most, but
not all, applications.


True. I should have said "almost all".





In the command prompt window it doesn't work :-(



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Old July 19th 17, 03:50 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 7/15/17 7:50 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
"Jack Fate" schreef in bericht
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Ken Blake wrote:

I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the
magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it
magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy.

I would like to see one of these two features in later versions.
Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I
would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that
only magnifies what is inside the window.


CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller.



Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel.

For both methods, this is a Windows standard and works in most, but
not all, applications.


True. I should have said "almost all".





In the command prompt window it doesn't work :-(


It doesn't in the body of a Gmail message either. But with Firefox,
that can be fixed with a script I have somewhere. I didn't write it, it
was given to me.


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Old July 19th 17, 04:31 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:50:05 -0600, Ken Springer
wrote:

On 7/15/17 7:50 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
"Jack Fate" schreef in bericht
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Ken Blake wrote:


CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller.



Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel.

For both methods, this is a Windows standard and works in most, but
not all, applications.


True. I should have said "almost all".





In the command prompt window it doesn't work :-(


It doesn't in the body of a Gmail message either.




It does here. Please note that gmail doesn't have to done on the gmail
web site. And as far as I'm concerned, that's the worst way to do it.
It can be done in all (almost all?) e-mail clients; I use Outlook.exe
for gmail, just as I do for all my other e-mail accounts, and
everything works in gmail the same way as it does it all my other
accounts.
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Old August 9th 17, 11:03 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 7/13/17 7:40 AM, Jack Fate wrote:
Seymore4Head wrote:
I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the
magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it
magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy.

I would like to see one of these two features in later versions.
Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I
would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that
only magnifies what is inside the window.


CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller. This is
true in both Windows and Linux. I don't know about Apple.


Apple is the CMD key and the */- keys.


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