"D.Duck" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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If yours does that, you must have a special version of XP that I've
never seen before.




Never tried it in WORD, but when I use my XP laptop and either firefox
or t'bird, my settings changes make the type size in those apps larger.
Next time I fire up the laptop, I'll check word.

I think the places you'll find the text size change will be the desktop
itself Task Bar, Start menu, Title Bar and Tool Bars of open
applications. Places like that. It will not affect the text size within
the browser window if we're discussing browsers, Word document text
size, Excel spreadsheet text size, to name a few.


Nope. On XP you can go into desktop appearance and change the font and
size of all sorts of things. While the labels in there might read "X" I
found through experimentation they also applied to "Y" in some important
cases.

But "Y" doesn't apply to browser window html text or any of my other
examples. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :)


I am not sure we are talking about the same thing. If you have Firefox and
click on "View", then "Text Size", then "Increase" (or just use Ctrl +) it
expands the whole Firefox display window. On this HP Laptop, I have to
increase it twice in order to fill the wide screen.

I've messed around with the Firefox settings under Tools -Options-Content,
default font, size, advanced tab, Font sizes, Font types, unchecked the
"Allow pages to chose their own font, etc. None of the changes to these
settings has the same effect as the simple "Ctrl +".

It would probably help if I knew what I was talking about. I do know that
changing the settings in XP screws up the appearance of other programs.

Not a big deal.

Eisboch