How to Use Zoom in an Opera Browser
With the ability to shrink text down to 20 percent or increase it up to as much as 1,000 percent, Opera's Zoom can help ease the strain on your eyes while viewing websites. Zoom boasts features that make it fully operational using just a keyboard.
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Instructions
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Use your "+" and "-" keys to zoom in or out of a website in increments of 10 percent, respectively.
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Watch the progress bar to keep track of your zooming habits.
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Consider using special keys on your keyboard to have more control over how zooming operates on a website. Pressing "0" zooms in and pressing "9" zooms out in increments of 10 percent just like using the "+" and "-." If you'd like to zoom in and out by increments of 100 percent, press "8" and "7" respectively.
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Revert back to the normal text size by pressing "6" or the star key on your keyboard.
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Manipulate text only by downloading the "zoom-text.js" script. Once you download the script, visit Opera's browser menu and select "Tools," "Preferences," "Advanced," "Content" and "Javascript Options." Point the "User Javascript Files" field to the location of the "zoom-text.js" script. Restart your browser, visit a website and find text zooming options on the bottom right corner of your window.
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Tips & Warnings
Visit Opera's official website if you encounter problems with zooming. The common problem of increasing space between text can be resolved by updating to a later build.
