How do I enlarge the tiny font of W7 prof., Live Mail?

How do I enlarge the font of W7 Pro? The system font, and thus (I hope) Live Mail, and other Live Essentials that have such tiny and fuzzy print as to be unreadable? Zooming in does not work for these applications/system.

Boy, am I sure sorry I got Professional, because it is not a problem in the cheaper versions from what I understand. I enlarged, and picked easy-to-read fonts, as much as I was given the choice through Custom Themes. I even tried resizing the screen, but it puts all buttons outside the visible fields. I guess MS does not care if we can actually read our mail.

I appreciate all imput, plus hope someday Windows will be more friendly for us older folk..

What steps did you take to change Fonts. Was it through the Advanced options panel? Standard font is sergio UI (Size 9, but that may vary in applications)
In defence of MS, I have no problem reading anything in Live Essentials.

You probably have a much larger screen than my laptop, and better sight, as I can't read newspapers either without an enlarger. Firefox has been great, because it is so easy to set larger fonts and to zoom in, but it won't work with Live Essentials. I had to ditch Chrome and IE for readability.

What has worked for me best for everything, except system fonts, is to right click the desktop, and select Personalize, and then Windows Classic. Then I just scroll through all the items of Windows Color and Appearance and set all settable fonts to 13, and pick non-crowded fonts like Verdana and Comic. (14 starts to affect not fitting in boxes, etc.)

I truly don't understand why, when everyone else lets you pick your own letter size, MS has to be so punishing. I could just open a easier to deal with email account and forward my mail...

This is not a Windows or MS problem, your monitor may be too small for you. I have bad eyes too and I got a 25" monitor.
Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display and try out the two larger settings, it helps. This will enlarge everything globally however.
In IE, or many programs, hold down the CTRL button and use your mouse wheel to change text size.

It's possible that you got a corrupted version of Windows Live, because the Zoom function on IE for example, should work on Windows Live with no problem. If that's the case, you could try uninstalling and reinstalling it.

In regard to font and image size, there are still a few additional ways to increase font size. Here's my long list --- some have been mentioned above, but there are quite a few that haven't. Let us know if any of them work for you.

1. Fonts - Change - This is the one of the main setting tools for setting various locations of Windows font sizes. Right-click on the Desktop and go to Personalize, Window Color and Appearance. Click on Advanced, and in the drop-down menu, select the item that controls the location where you wish to change the font size. (Note: the last one, Window, does not have an option to control font size.)

2. DPI - How to Change the Display DPI Size in Windows 7
Right click on Desktop, Personalize, On Personalization Page, (OR go to Start Menu, Control Panel, Display, and in left column select Custom DPI setting.) go to left column to: Adjust Font size – DPI, DPI Scaling: Click on Large scale (120 DPI), and click Apply. OR Click ‘Set custom text size (DPI)’ in the left pane to customize the text size and drag the ruler with your mouse to increase or decrease the percentage.

3. Screen Resolution - TechTalkz.com Technology & Computer Troubleshooting Forums > Operating Systems > Windows 7 – Guide to How to Change Font Size + Icon Size

Right-click on the Desktop, choose Screen Resolution, (OR go to Start Menu, Control Panel, Display, and in left column select ‘Adjust resolution.’) click on the down-arrow at the end of the Resolution box, and pick the desired resolution. Check OK.

4. Display: Right-click on the Desktop, select Personalize, then Display. (OR Start Menu, Control Panel, Display.) From the 3 settings: Small, Medium, Large, if screen defaults to Medium (125% size for font and images) and that’s too large, use Small for 100% size (aka “normal”)

5. At the lower right hand corner of every IE web page, there’s a Zoom control that lets you increase the size of every web page, and it stays at that Zoom setting for every page until/unless you change it.

6. Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, UNcheck all three:
Reset text size to Medium for new windows and tabs, and
Reset text size to Medium while Zooming, and
Reset Zoom level to 100% for new windows and tabs

7. Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options, General, Accessibility, Select Ignore font sizes specified on web pages. Click OK, then Apply, then OK.

8. Open Internet Explorer, click the Page button, click Text Size, and then select the size you want i.e. Large (Largest may be too large).

9. Ease of Access Center – Go to either: Control Panel, All Control Panel Items, Ease of Access Center, Make Your Computer Easier to Use, Explore All Settings, and click on: Make this computer easier to see (Optimize Visual Display). OR go to Control Panel, and Explore all settings. Under the following heading, Make things on the screen larger, select: Change the size of text + icons. This takes you to the dpi settings screen.

10. If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, use command/ctrl + your scroll on a web page to increase the font size. (You should be able to change the button assignments of the mouse in its Control Panel by selecting an appropriate option for the function you want.)

11. MS Word templates: In the Ribbon or QuickAccess Bar select Styles, Normal, and when the little arrow appears, select Modify. Under Formatting you can change the default font size (12) to whatever size you wish. At the bottom of the screen select Only in this documents OR New documents based on this template. Click OK. You can change this font size setting for any/all other MS Word templates as well.

12. In IE and FireFox (for current use – not permanent): press Ctrl and the + key to increase screen size. To reduce screen size press Ctrl and the – key. (To restore screen size to 100% press Ctrl and 0.)

13. FireFox (permanent setting): go to Tools, Options, Content, and on that screen set the new default text size that you wish. Then, click Advanced and there are additional default text size settings. Plus, in the box that says "Minimum text size" select None, and down below, UNcheck the box that says "allow pages to choose their own fonts instead of my selections above."

14. FireFox Add-On: NoSquint (http://urandom.ca/nosquint/)

15. Magnifier – To Magnify Entire Page: Start, Search pane, and type: magnifier. When it comes up click the plus (+) sign. The entire page will magnify. OR go to: Control Panel, All Control Panel Items, Ease of Access Center, Make Your Computer Easier to Use, Start Magnifier.

16. Magnifier – To Magnify a Certain Portion of the Screen - go to Start, Search pane, and type: magnifier. Click the program at the top. The Magnifier can be set to Docked Mode which places a re-sizable window at the top of the screen that follows the cursor. (To read more about Magnifier go to Start, click "Help & Support" on the right hand side, type in "magnifier.") Magnifier is actually located at: Start, All Programs, Accessories, Ease of Access, Magnifier.

"it's possible that you got a corrupted version of Windows Live, because the Zoom function on IE for example, should work on Windows Live with no problem"

That's interesting. I don't appear to have that feature in Live Mail? Could be useful when some of my corresponders send me email in very small fonts.

davehc said:

"it's possible that you got a corrupted version of Windows Live, because the Zoom function on IE for example, should work on Windows Live with no problem"

That's interesting. I don't appear to have that feature in Live Mail? Could be useful when some of my corresponders send me email in very small fonts.

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The Zoom function is actually a part of IE, not Live Mail. However, if you're viewing your mail using IE as your browser, the Zoom function is a part of the screen and works to enlarge the fonts and images on the Live Mail screen, including mail.

Ok tks. I was aware of that. I use the standalone Mail and thought I had missed something!

Don't forget to check Screen Resolution. Maybe it's set to high.

Uh folks....... post is three years old.
Art,

Rats, that's the 2nd time in less than a week I've been sucked into responding to a really old thread.

Thanks Art

:haha:

I almost did. Heck, I even had a fix in mind. You can change the font and size of the message area in WLM (Essentials) but not the folder pane or message list pane.