Church tools and resources

Controlling font size in Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator for Windows

You can affect the size of your browser's fonts in two ways. You can either adjust the default font size in the browser itself, or force the browser to use your default system font size and adjust your system font.

Adjust the browser font

The simpler solution is to adjust your browser font size directly. To do this, follow the directions below for your browser:

Netscape Navigator

In Netscape 6.0 and higher, from the View menu, select Text Size. From the drop-down menu, click the desired font size.

In versions of Netscape before 6.0, from the View menu, select Increase Font or Decrease Font. Repeat until fonts are the desired size.

Internet Explorer

From the View menu, select Text Size.

From the drop-down menu, select the desired size (from Largest to Smallest).
Force the browser to use the system font

The other solution is to make your browser use the system default font, overriding the font size specified in the web page. To do this, follow the directions below for your browser:

Netscape Navigator

From the Edit menu, select Preferences ...

For Netscape 6.0 and higher, click Appearance to display more options, and then click Fonts. Deselect the checkbox next to Allow documents to use other fonts.

For Netscape versions before 6.0, click the + (plus sign) next to Appearance (or double-click Appearance) to display more options, and then click Fonts. Under "Sometimes a document will provide its own fonts", select Use my default fonts, overwriting document specified fonts.

Internet Explorer

From the Tools menu, select Internet Options.

On the bottom right of the page, click the Accessibility... button.

In the Accessibility window, click to check Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages.

Now you can change the size of your system default font, which will change your browser font size, by following the directions for your operating system:

Windows XP

Right-click the desktop and select Properties.

In the Display Properties window, click the Settings tab, and then click the Advanced button.

On the General tab, select Normal size (96DPI) or Large Size (120DPI). Click OK.

Note: To customize your fonts, select Custom Setting... . Next to "Scale fonts to be XXX% of normal size", from the drop-down menu, select the percentage difference you want, or slide the ruler to select the percentage. Click OK.
Windows 2000

Right-click the desktop and select Properties.

In the Display Properties window, click the Settings tab, and then click the Advanced button.

On the General tab, select Small Fonts or Large Fonts, and click OK.

Note: To customize your fonts, click Other. Next to "Scale fonts to be XXX% of normal size", type the percentage difference you want, or slide the ruler to select the percentage. Click OK.

Windows NT

Right-click the desktop, select Properties, and then click the Settings tab.

In the Font Size window, select Large Fonts or Small Fonts. Click OK.

Windows 98 and Me

Right-click the desktop, select Properties, and then click the Settings tab.

Click the Advanced button. Select Small Fonts or Large Fonts, and then click OK.

Note: To customize your fonts, select Other. Next to "Scale fonts to be XXX% of normal size", type the percentage difference you want, or slide the ruler to select the percentage. Click OK.

Windows 95

Right-click the desktop, select Properties, and then click the Settings tab.

Select Small Fonts or Large Fonts, and then click OK.

Note: To customize your fonts, click Custom. Next to "Scale fonts to be XXX% of normal size", type the percentage difference you want, or slide the ruler to select the percentage. Click OK.

(Text borrowed without permission from http://kb.iu.edu/data/aiwf.html.)