Solved Notepad display

[mike1249]

With notepad the font size has always been 12. However the type size view has always been quite large. Now, for no reason the view has become very small. I haven't changed anything, hardware, software or notepad settings. Please read this carefully - others have not.

Added: It is no good making text greater than 12 because I am forever copying and pasting from Notepad and everything i have is size 12. (points?)

 

[Brink]

Hello Mike, and welcome to Seven Forums.

If you like, you could user a higher DPI setting to make everything appear larger in Windows.

DPI Display Size Settings - Change

 

[mike1249]

Thanks Shawn, but I don't want all windows to be larger.

 

[Mellon Head]

Mike,

Open Notepad, and under "Format" -> "Font" set the type and size of your font from there. I just tried it and it works just fine for me.

 

[mike1249]

Thanks, but I leave the font set at 12. As I said it is now very small on the screen. Previously I was still set at 12, but the type was much larger on the screen and this is what I want to get back to. I just don't know how!

Thanks again.

 

[Ranger4]

mike. Is the font size still showing as 12. If it is then something else has changed, have you changes monitors or screen resolution recently?. The font on my Notepad is Lucida Console & the size is 10, which is the default as far as I know.

If you want to change the font or font size in Notepad, open it & select Format from the top menu, then click on Font from the drop down list & then select what you need from the font & size selection.

 

[mike1249]

Thanks.
The font size has always been 12. However the type size view has always been quite large. Now, for no reason the view has become very small. I haven't changed anything, hardware, software or notepad settings.

 

[Ranger4]

You could change the font size as I described in my Post #6. Select a size that suits you.

 

[mike1249]

Thanks Ranger4
You're not reading my ad correctly. My font size has always been 12. At this size the screen image has previously shown the text as quite large. Now, I have made no hardware or software changes and the text view has become very small. I'm mystified.

I can't change my text larger than 12 because I am always copying and pasting from notepad and that is the size I use in all other programs.

 

[Brink]

Mike,

Is this only happening with Notepad, or everything? If only Notepad, then check to see if the font (Format -> Font) may have been changed from what you had before.

Have you checked to see if your screen resolution or DPI has been changed to rule them out?

 

[Ztruker]

Mike, what do you mean by Font size view?

 

[mike1249]

You could change the font size as I described in my Post #6. Select a size that suits you.

Hi Ranger 4. I was missing your point Ranger 4. You were suggesting using the changing of the font size as a way around the problem. The reason that this wouldn't work is that I have 12 point type as the default type size in all my programs. I very rarely save anything in notepad, I just use it to copy and paste from.

So I have to find the underlying cause of the problem.

 

[Ranger4]

mike. Please open Notepad & then click on Format at the top & then select Font & see what the actual size of your current setting is. The screen shot below explains it for you.

 

[mike1249]

Thanks for getting back to me Ranger 4.
The font size is 12 point. I knew how to change that - there's not much that I don't know about notepad.
Increasing the font size to enlarge the text displayed will not help - I use 12 point type on all my programs. Notepad is almost always used just for copying and pasting to these other programs. It would be too slow to keep changing font size.
As I said before previously notepad was set to 12 point type and large text was displayed. Now it's still set to 12 point and I'm getting very small text displayed.
However, I've had a good thought.
I've said that when this change occurred I had made no alterations to hardware or software. I've just recalled that my son had made an alteration - he had done some updates. This has me very suspicious. (My son helps me but he can't solve this notepad problem.)

 

[mike1249]

More news Ranger 4:
I've tried opening some old notepad files. They had previously displayed large text while set at 12 point font size. They would paste into other programs at 12 point. When I opened them now they displayed small text.
Also, I recall that notepad also previously printed in large text, when font size was 12 point. Not good, but I hardly ever printed from notepad - as I said I used to use it for copying and pasting from into other programs.
I usually put text into notepad to strip unwanted graphics.
The change must have come about with the upgrades.

Thanks very much for all your help. I'm very grateful.

 

[Ranger4]

mike. While on the text size issue, I had a look back at Notepad documents that I had saved back in April 2013 & compared then to documents saved in Feb 2017 & the text size is identical.

I keep my computer up to date with all the Updates, so if you find an update that has caused this problem I ma sure it would be of interest.

 

[mike1249]

I've given up Ranger4.
I'll just have to put up with the small type.

Thanks again

 

[RoWin7]

Roll your scroll wheel while holding CTRL. It will zoom you in or out on most programs without changing the actual size of objects, only the perceived size.

 

[mitchell65]

If your son had done some Windows updates then try a system restore to the point before the updates and see if that cures the problem. Winows auomatically creates a rstore point before installing any updates. If this cures the problem, reinstall the updates one by one and test each time to see if the problem returns. Then you will see which particular update is at fault!

 

[redoak]

Thanks Ranger4
You're not reading my ad correctly. My font size has always been 12. At this size the screen image has previously shown the text as quite large. Now, I have made no hardware or software changes and the text view has become very small. I'm mystified.

I can't change my text larger than 12 because I am always copying and pasting from notepad and that is the size I use in all other programs.

It doesn't matter what font size you use in your other programs - Notepad only deals with straight-up ascii, and strips out all formatting of font size/face/attributes, coming and going. If your Notepad font is size 18 pt Deja Vu Sans, and you paste into, say Word that is using 12 pt Times Roman, it will be 12 pt Times Roman. If you cut out of Word using 12 and paste it into NP, it will appear as 18. NP's font size/face is simply for its own display.