Making the text larger in your Web Browser the two most popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator

Enlarging Website Text

Making the text larger in your Web Browser the two most popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. Below you will find a step-by-step guide to enlarging the text in your internet browser. This guide was written using Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.6 but you may find that the guide works for some previous versions of these Web Browsers.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
2. Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the marked View
3. A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose text size
4. Next another drop down menu should appear with options including small, medium, large, and largest
5. Select largest
6. The text in your browser window should now appear larger. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as Screen Magnification software.

Netscape Communicator

1. Open your Netscape Communicator Web Browser
2. Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window marked Edit
3. A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, select Preferences
4. This will open a large window.
5. In a box on the left hand side of this window you will find a list of choices. At the top of this box you will see the word Appearance and under that fonts and colours.
6. Select Fonts
7. Another window will appear called Fonts and under it will be several boxes.
8. In the box will be the text for the encoding and a drop down box. In this box it will read western.
9. Underneath this there will be the text variable width font and a drop down box. Select the box and a drop down menu should appear. Now choose Arial.
10. In the box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18
11. underneath this there will be the text fixed width font and a drop down box. This should already be set by default to Courier New.
12. In the box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18.
13. Underneath these boxes there is the text sometimes a document will produce its own fonts.
14. Beneath this there are three choices. The top choice is Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts.
15. Select this option by clicking in the circle next to this sentence.
16. Now select OK.
17. Your text should now appear larger on the screen of your browser.
18. If the text is still not large enough for you then repeat the instruction and when you select Size and make the text larger than 18. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as Screen Magnification software.