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jerry - 12-6-2006 at 09:13 PM

im a dummy can anyone tell me how to make the messages on bajanomd larger??it only takes up about 2/3 of the screen and the letters are hard to read i just got a new laptop with windows ex-p home
please explane in detail as im not puder savy thanks jerry

Natalie Ann - 12-6-2006 at 09:32 PM

Jerry - look at the upper right hand corner of your internet page. There are 3 boxes - the center one shows two boxes, one behind the other. Click on this box. I think this will fix your problem.

jerry - 12-6-2006 at 09:42 PM

thanks Natalie Ann
i allreaddy did that
and i cant seem to drag the outsides of the box either?
i need to fing the place that makes the font bigger the letters bigger
i tryed the microsoft internet explorer {VIEW] Text Size but itdoesnt do it for bajanomads? but thanks anyway jerry

BajaNomad - 12-6-2006 at 09:44 PM

Might need the Windows Magnifier - if it's installed:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/magni...

Otherwise, change the display resolution???:
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/screenres...

jerry - 12-6-2006 at 09:58 PM

thank you ill get my nephew to help me with these links thanks again

Paula - 12-6-2006 at 10:08 PM

Jerry, this may sound silly, but do you wear glasses? A pair of drugstore reading glasses for magnification may help while you solve the technical problem.

Should be lots of 'em kicking around Loreto. I have 25 pair or so myself. Totally dependent.

jerry - 12-6-2006 at 10:17 PM

im wearing reading glassess and just got my eyes checked go to get a perscription soon i have the option of just getting 2 different reading glassess one for reading and one for puder might try that first but everyone tells me ill never have the right ones with me this laptop has a 17.2 inch screen so i can go up in size quite a bit guess ill see thanks you in loreto now?? ill be there jan 9th
like to meet ya perhaps again?? jerry

Paula - 12-6-2006 at 10:23 PM

Jerry,
We're here for the winter, spring, and most of the summer. U2U when you get here, and we'll all get together.

jerry - 12-6-2006 at 10:30 PM

paula will do

Bob H - 12-6-2006 at 11:08 PM

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Originally posted by Paula
Jerry, this may sound silly, but do you wear glasses? A pair of drugstore reading glasses for magnification may help while you solve the technical problem.

Should be lots of 'em kicking around Loreto. I have 25 pair or so myself. Totally dependent.

Jerry, go to the drug store and get +300 reading glasses. What a difference it makes.... Bob H

larry - 12-6-2006 at 11:25 PM

This might help. Try adjusting your screen resolution. On the Start taskbar go to Settings, then Control Panel, then Display. Click on the Settings button and slide the Screen Resolution to the middle (1280x800). Then click Apply and then OK.

jerry - 12-7-2006 at 01:00 AM

thanks larry that did help some but its a little blury not as sharp it will help for now thanks again

bahiamia - 12-7-2006 at 08:10 AM

To make the contents on your desktop appear larger, you'll want to decrease the screen resolution. 1280x1024 is pretty high, instead, go the other direction and set it to 800x600 pixels.

If you still prefer the fonts/text to be larger even still, go to the bar at the top of your browser when on BajaNomad or any other page. Click on "VIEW", then "TEXT", then change the font size from there to a larger size.

longlegsinlapaz - 12-7-2006 at 08:29 AM

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Originally posted by lencho

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Originally posted by jerry
im a dummy can anyone tell me how to make the messages on bajanomd larger?

In the FireFox browser, hitting "CTRL +" instantly increases font size about 50% each time. If you aren't already using FireFox, that feature alone is worth the switch.

--Larry

Hot damn Larry!! Thanks!!!! That is much easier on these old eyes! :lol:

You going to tell the secret code to undo that? Or is it a session thingee? Does it only affect the session I do it in & only for that log-on? Or what? Or you going to make me dig myself out? :?:

Oh wait!! Could it be CRTL - ?? It is!! :bounce:

jerry - 12-7-2006 at 09:19 AM

thanks larry just a few things for this dummy what is foxfire?? where and how do i get it??

bajalou - 12-7-2006 at 09:22 AM

Foxfire is a web browser, similar to Internet Explorer but with more safety and lots of neat features, like automatic spell check etc. Has lots of add ons and plug ins to let you customize your internet usage. Colored tabs, tab previews - tons of them. Free from

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/

Been using it for a couple years ? and great.

bigjohn - 12-7-2006 at 09:25 AM

Jerry,

I did not know about the Control+ trick but this might also work.

At the top of your screen it should say:

File Edit View Favorites Tools Help

Click on View and a drop down box will open up.

Click on text size and another box will open showing:

Largest Larger Medium Smaller Smallest

One of these will have a dot next to it showing which setting is currently being used. If you would like it larger or smaller, just click on which one you would like.

I hope this works for you as well!

a

[Edited on 12-7-2006 by bigjohn]

[Edited on 12-7-2006 by bigjohn]

bajalou - 12-7-2006 at 09:42 AM

Big John's suggestions should work out for you, but I set the size for most of the pages at one that's acceptable and still find a page now and then that's small and use the Control + for that one.

jerry - 12-7-2006 at 10:03 AM

thanks bigjohn i tryed that befor i asked here it increases the font for the brouser but not nomads??

the central+ has to be with foxfire??\

im really new at this and stupid when it comes to puders if i down load foxfire will it become my brouser? and will i beable to get back to internet explorer? to be able to get to all the other things i need to

jerry - 12-7-2006 at 10:15 AM

send me enoff money and ill hire a writer to write a artical and lawers to start a law suit to protect the sheep from themselves :lol:

bajalou - 12-7-2006 at 10:17 AM

It doesn't replace Internet Explorer, just installs in addition to it. and with "View in IE" I have never had to go back to IE, get updates etc all through Firefox.

jerry - 12-7-2006 at 10:45 AM

thank you one and all i now have foxfire and i can see the print

BajaNomad - 12-7-2006 at 04:46 PM

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Originally posted by lencho

Quote:

Originally posted by bigjohn
Jerry,

I did not know about the Control+ trick but this might also work.
At the top of your screen it should say:
File Edit View Favorites Tools Help
Click on View and a drop down box will open up.
Click on text size and another box will open showing:

Largest Larger Medium Smaller Smallest

Oh, I WISH Microsoft had not done that. Anything other than a setting of "medium", really misses up the font scheme of a LOT of normally well-implemented pages.

Grumble...

--Larry

Actually Larry, the fonts only change this way i(and with Ctrl+scroll) in IE (versions ?? through 6; don't know about 7 yet) if they are coded as relative font sizes and not absolute sizes. To see it get all messed up, one can do this on the Today's Posts page - and it plays funny tricks because the way the XMB developers coded that page.

--
Doug