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MamaWick — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:40:33 GMT

You mentioned having trouble reading the small font...

A tip...Hold down the Ctrl key while moving the mouse thumb wheel up. You will enlarge the font. It works the same by moving the thumb wheel down to shrink it.

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croemer — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:15:04 GMT

Hi Mama...or holding down the Ctrl key and the + sign. If you want it smaller that would be Ctrl and the - sign.

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MickD — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:29:13 GMT

Hey! Pretty cool...I can see! I can see!!!!

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Preds — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:33:21 GMT

My DH had to show me this trick......love it.

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Marianne1 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:50:33 GMT

this does not work on a Mac. You have to use two fingers on the mousepad and stretch the screen. If that makes sense, lol.

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MamaWick — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:05:36 GMT

On 3/6/2014 croemer said:
Hi Mama...or holding down the Ctrl key and the + sign. If you want it smaller that would be Ctrl and the - sign.

Cool Croemer...I didn't know that trick. I was wondering what a person with a laptop and no mouse would do, and know I know. Thanks for the addition.

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toodles11 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:45:45 GMT

My youngest told me how to do the + and - but I never remember when I need to use it.

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stilltamn8r — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 04:59:14 GMT

unless you are on a Mac... I learned the hard way when I first got my new one and didn't know how to ""shrink' the stuff back down!!!

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dooBdoo — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:18:31 GMT

On an iMac:

Hold down the Apple/Command key. Then depress the "plus sign" as many times as you want -- each time you'll zoom in more. To zoom back out, hold down the Apple/Command key and hit the "minus sign" (hyphen). (The Apple/Command and 0 (zero) combo one time should take the screen to its default size.)

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croemer — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:33:33 GMT

On 3/6/2014 MickD said:
Hey! Pretty cool...I can see! I can see!!!!

Awesome!

Hey Mama...happy I could help.

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MamaWick — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:58:47 GMT

Not sure if Chickenbutt has seen this yet, so...sending it back to the top.

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Preds — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:38:51 GMT

Saw chickenbutt earlier, so sending this up.

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chickenbutt — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:42:30 GMT

Hey thanks, Predsfan and MW! I had left for an appointment yesterday and missed it.

I appreciate the info. I did not know you could do that. d'oh!

I just tried to do that and it didn't do anything. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I use Marble Mouses and I don't have a 'thumb wheel' that I know of. There is just left click, right click, and the big ball that moves the cursor up and down and all around.

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croemer — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:47:49 GMT

On 3/7/2014 chickenbutt said:
Hey thanks, Predsfan and MW! I had left for an appointment yesterday and missed it.

I appreciate the info. I did not know you could do that. d'oh!

I just tried to do that and it didn't do anything. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I use Marble Mouses and I don't have a 'thumb wheel' that I know of. There is just left click, right click, and the big ball that moves the cursor up and down and all around.

Hi chicken...use the Ctrl and + to make the print bigger and Ctrl and - to make it smaller.

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Preds — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:51:06 GMT

Try ctrl and your + key

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chickenbutt — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:53:50 GMT

Oh, thanks! I should have paid better attention. I tried that and it works to make the whole page bigger.

But my problem (and I don't blame the posters for this - it's a Q Board problem) is the teensy tiny font and inability to paragraph for people who use iPads and such.

I actually do a bigger page thing (only in a different way) with, especially, my web mail page because stoopid ATT now has these wretched flash banner ads along the right margin. So, if I make the page big enough they fall off. ha!

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croemer — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:55:49 GMT

Really...glad I don't have that problem. Hope it helped a bit?

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chickenbutt — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:58:36 GMT

On 3/7/2014 croemer said:
Really...glad I don't have that problem. Hope it helped a bit?

I just wish QVC would fix this. I can pretty much read smaller print but the tiny size of the print from people who have iPads is just too much for my old eyes I guess. Plus, the inability to create paragraph breaks makes my eyeballs bleed. hehe

If I had an iPad (in which I have no interest, so that probably won't happen) I would not use it to post here. It wouldn't be worth the hassle. I guess some have offered suggestions for ways they can create larger font and paragraphs but most don't wish to do that.

Thanks so much!

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dooBdoo — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:03:26 GMT

To make the text larger when using a tablet, even if you don't want to do anything to create paragraph breaks, try this and see if it works for you:

Begin your text with < p > (without the spaces before and after the letter "p").

You can always go into your Settings on the tablet and set it up as a one-character "shortcut" if you don't want to type the brackets and the letter "p" each time.