Making IE pages larger

Discussion in 'Software' started by lionrampant, Apr 20, 2006.

  1. lionrampant

    lionrampant Specialist

    Is thre a keyboard command to enlargen IE pages. Netscape uses Ctrl+ +.
     
    lionrampant, Apr 20, 2006
    #1
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Not a full keyboard command ( like Netscape ) , but hold CTRL key down and if your mouse has wheel move it up or down, to change page text size.


    Menu option is View > Text Size.


    just as an informational thing, these are other common IE keyboard shortcuts,

    CONTROL-A: Selct all text for copying
    CONTROL-B: Open the Organize Favorites dialog box
    CONTROL-D: Immediately add the current page to your favorites
    CONTROL-E: Open the search bar
    CONTROL-F: Search for text on the page
    CONTROL-H: Open the history bar
    CONTROL-I: Open the favorites bar
    CONTROL-L: Open an URL
    CONTROL-N: New browser window
    CONTROL-O: Open an URL
    CONTROL-P: Print a web page
    CONTROL-S: Save a web page to disk
    CONTROL-W: Close the current browser window

    ALT-D: Select the address bar
    ALT-Left Arrow: Go back
    ALT-Right Arrow: Go forward
    ALT-F4: Close Internet Explorer
    ALT-Home: Visit the home page

    TAB: Move focus to the next link
    ENTER: Select the current link
    UP: Scroll up in the current webpage
    DOWN: Scroll down in the current webpage
    PAGE UP: Scroll up one page
    PAGE DOWN: Scroll down one page
    HOME: Move to the top of the current webpage
    END: Move to the end of the current webpage

    ESC: Stop loading the current page

    F1: Help
    F5: Refresh the current page
    F11: Full Screen Mode
     
    DavidGP, Apr 21, 2006
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  3. Maxwell

    Maxwell Folgers

    Halo has given you a means for sizing text, which works for many pages but not all and won’t resize images. I use Maxthon http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1167 which has the Control-+ to zoom in the whole page.

    In addition you can download the Web Accessories from Microsoft (couldn’t find the download here) which has a picture zoom in/out function from right clicking any image. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.mspx and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=177725#EBACAAA

    Even though these are for IE5 they also work for IE6. However, there is a bug in the zoom function and you can correct this as follows:

    To fix it, use Notepad to open ZOOMIN.HTM (found usually in WINDOWS\WEB ), and edit it to read both image dimensions before setting any of them:

    old contents:
    Code:
    ....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....
    new contents (the 3rd line in the fragment above moved up):
    Code:
    ....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....
    Do the same for ZOOMOUT.HTM changing '*' to a '/'
     
    Maxwell, Apr 21, 2006
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