Making text easier to see in your browser - Netscape

A lot of webpages can be difficult to view because the text is too small to comfortably read. Follow these steps to increase the size of the text on any web page you are viewing.

Increase the text size

• Open the View menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+V.
• Select the Text Zoom option with the mouse or by pressing Z.
• Choose your preferred text size with the mouse or by using the up and down keys and pressing enter or OK.

Some web sites will have hard-coded the size of their text and as a consequence these web sites will not reflect the change you have just made. If you would like your preferences to be reflected on these other sites you visit please follow these steps: (Please note: If you are using Netscape v7 then the following steps are not necessary.)

• Open the Edit menu with the mouse or press Alt+E
• Click on Preferences or press E to open the preferences dialog box.
• Click on, or use the arrow keys, to select the Font heading underneath the Appearance category. If you cannot see the Font heading, you may need to expand the Appearance category. Do this by either double clicking on Appearance, or selecting Appearance with the arrow keys and pressing the right arrow key. (See fig 1)
  

  
  Fig 1

• Using the mouse, or the Tab key, navigate to the Minimum Font Size box on the right hand side. Click on the arrow and choose a new font size, or press the up arrow, choose a new font size and press Enter.
• Now click OK or press Enter to return to the page you were viewing.

You should find that this has changed the font size for every web page you subsequently visit. If not, then follow these steps:

• Open the Edit menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+E.
• Click on Preferences or press E to open the preferences dialog box.
• Click on, or use the arrow keys to select the Font heading underneath the Appearance category. If you cannot see the Font heading, you may need to expand the Appearance category. Do this by either double clicking on Appearance, or selecting Appearance with the arrow keys and pressing the right arrow key. (See fig 1 above)
• Using the mouse, or the Tab key, navigate to the box labelled Allow documents to use other fonts and press the space bar or use the mouse to make sure the box is checked.
• Now click OK or press Enter to return to the page you were viewing.