Tips to
Increase Text Size on Your Computer.
Here are a couple easy ways
to change some settings on your computer if you find you
need to increase the text size on our site. The tips we
give you here can be applied to any site that you are visiting.
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Windows Users
Internet Explorer
(versions 5.x-6.x)
To change the text sizes in Internet Explorer (versions
5.x-6.x) for Windows, you must first disable style sheets.
To do so, follow the directions below:
- From he Menu Bar, select Tools and click Internet
Options
- Select the General tab and click the box entitled
Accessibility
- Ensure that all three buttons under Formatting
are checked
- Click OK in Accessibility dialog box
- Click OK in Internet Options dialog box
- Click Refresh
After successfully disabling style sheets,
- From the Menu Bar.select View
- Scroll to Text Size and choose your preference
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Internet
Explorer (version 7.0 and
greater)
To change text sizes in Internet Explorer (version
7.0 and greater) for Windows:
- From the Menu Bar. select View
- Scroll to Text Size and choose your preference
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Netscape
(version 4.x)
To change text sizes in Netscape (version 4.x) for
Windows, you must first disable style sheets. To do
so, follow the directions below:
- From the Menu Bar. select Edi>Preferences
- Click on the Advanced category and deselect the
item entitled Enable Style Sheets
- Click OK
- Click Reload
After successfully disabling style sheets,
- From the Menu Bar, select View
- Scroll down to Increase Font
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Netscape
(version 6.0 and greater)
To change text sizes in Netscape (version 6.0 and
greater) for Windows:
- From he Menu Bar, select View
- Scroll down to Text Zoom and choose your preferences.
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Firefox
1.0
- From the Firefox Menu Bar select View>Text
Size>Increase
- This will cause the text to display on the web
page one size larger. However this is a temporary
change.
To make a permanent font size change:
- From the Firefox Menu Bar, select Tools>Options.
- Click on General
- Click on Fonts & Colors.
- Set the font sizes. Minimum font size.can also
be set.
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Mozilla
1.7
- From the Menu Bar, select Edit>Preferences.
- Double click Appearance and select Fonts.
- On the right panel set the font sizes. Minimum
font size can also be set.
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Mac OS Users
Internet
Explorer (versions 5.x-6.x)
To change text sizes in Internet Explorer (versions
5.x and greater) for Mac OS:
- From the Menu Bar, select View
- Scroll down to Text Zoom and choose your preference
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Netscape
(version 4.x)
To change text sizes in Netscape (version 4.x) for
Mac you must first disable style sheets. To do so, follow
the directions below:
- From the Menu Bar, selectt Edit and click Preferences
- Click on the Advanced category and deselect the
item entitled Enable Style Sheets
- Click OK
- Click Reload
After successfully disabling style sheets,
- From the Menu Bar, select View
- Scroll down to Increase Font
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Netscape
(version 6.0 and higher)
To change text sizes in Netscape (version 6.0 &
higher) for Mac OS:
- From the Menu Bar, select View
- Scroll down to Text Zoom
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Firefox
1.0
- From the Firefox Menu Bar select View>Text
Size>Increase
- This will cause the text to display on the web
page one size larger. However this is a temporary
change.
To make a permanent font size change:
- From the Firefox menu bar, select Firefox>Preferences.
- Click on Fonts & Colors.
- Set the font sizes. Minimum font size can also
be set.
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Mozilla
1.7
- From the Mozilla Menu select View>Text Zoom>Increase
- This will cause the text to display on the web
page one size larger. However this is a temporary
change.
To make a permanent font size change:
- From the Mozilla Menu select Preferences.
- Click on Appearance then click on Fonts.
- Set the font sizes.
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Safari
1.2.4
- From the Safari menu, select Preferences.
- Click Appearance.
- To change the standard font or fixed-width font
used in pages, click the appropriate Select button.
- Change the font size using the slider bar.
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