A stupid Windoze question...

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Disco Stu on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 03:35 pm

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OK, 

This is very basic and silly, but I know squat about Windoze.  Mac has so much more of an elegant interface.

Some screens have a GIANT TEXT appearance, like for the visually-impaired.  The Dog actually did that slamming a Paw on the keyboard, no shit.

For example, the home-screen of Opera browser is like that.

How the heck do I get rid of that ?  It will be a few years before I'm that blind.

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ender on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 03:38 pm

Magnify page with keyboard short cuts

With most websites you should be able to magnify everything that is on the screen with the keyboard.

Use Ctrl and ‘+’ (plus) sign to make things bigger.

Use Ctrl and ‘-‘ (minus) sign to make things smaller.

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Disco Stu on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 03:43 pm

Thanks Mr. Ender, 

That worked.  Much appreciated.

I still have no idea how Dawg managed to do that.

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relio on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 04:04 pm

this ctrl + and ctrl - command has helped me greatly.  i am visually impaired and i could only get my screen up to 400%.  now with this command i can go up to 700%.  wow.  thanks.

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ender on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 04:08 pm

Cool, glad I could help.

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relio on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 04:12 pm

hey not limburger, thank you very much!

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Disco Stu on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 04:25 pm

It amazes me how quickly technology zooms by me in my 20th century paradigm.

1989 -> early 90's I was actually getting paid to do techie-style work,  but it was DOS 3.31 or primitive Windoze.

Jeez, I even took courses at the community college in AutoCad & computer graphics. 

Now my 40-dollar Android fone can render 3-D stuff better than those 5000-dollar 386 machines in 1/100 of the time.

If I could only figure out how...

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ntfdaway on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 05:20 pm

Also ctrl and scroll wheel.

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mikeedwardsetc on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 05:22 pm

> If I could only figure out how...

There's probably an app for that.

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ender on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 – 05:27 pm

>> If I could only figure out how...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law