How to Enlarge Screen Text Quickly

Keyboard

This amazingly easy trick will instantly enlarge hard to see text on your screen! Should you ever want to decrease the text, this trick in reverse will minimize text as well!

Things You'll Need

• Computer monitor
• keyboard
• a need to better see text on the screen

Instructions

1. 

   Spending lots of time online can cause eyestrain, especially if you encounter very small text. Don't squint or hunch over your screen! Squinting causes wrinkles! Using these tips you can read screen text comfortably! With the press of two keys, you can enlarge the screen text without going into your settings.

2. 

   Simply press and hold down the "control" key, while pressing the "plus sign" key. Be sure to keep the "control key" depressed while you press the "plus sign" key. Each repetition will enlarge the text. This can make reading small text SO much easier!

3. To return the text back to its original size (being polite to the next user), simply press, and hold down the "control" key and the "minus sign" key. Each repetition will decrease the text size.

Tips & Warnings

• This works on web pages, but not applications.

• This is a great rapid way to enable reading small text. The process is easily reversed as well!

• On most web pages, this process will enlarge images as well!

• This will work on MOST web sites, but you may encounter some sites where it won't work. (It all depends on how the page is written)

• This does not work in applications. For example, while in a text editor like Word, or Adobe Acrobat, simply enlarge the page or font view size.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish