Display too large

A recent comment about small fonts in AOL Desktop prompted me to explain how to increase the size of your fonts in your Windows Operating System. AOL Desktop will recognize your preferred OS font size so that text throughout the program will be larger. (To increase your browser font size, which is handled separately, go to the Tools menu in the AOL Desktop browser, choose "Power Browsing" and go to "Page Display".) To set the font size in your Operating System (warning: this will apply to all your other applications, not just AOL), go to your Display Properties in Windows XP / Personalization Settings in Windows Vista. On XP, you can right-click on your PC desktop background and choose "Properties", then select the "Appearance" tab". Look for the "Font Size" menu at the bottom, and choose the dropdown for your preferred font size (e.g. normal, large, and extra large). In the screenshot below, you'll see the steps I just described below. I'm running "Large Fonts" so you can see how it impacts my window chrome...

Hi Ruth,
You can re-size the display font by pressing "Ctrl" +(plus sign) for large font and -(minus sign) for smaller font. Hope it helps.

-Press start
-go to control panel
-find 'personalization'
-on the bottom left click display or search for display

hope this helps!:)

Print is so small? Are you talking about on a piece of paper you printed out that it is small? If so what program did you use to print it? If it's a document in something like Microsoft Word, you just highlight the text and increase the Font Size.

If you are talking about the fonts on the screen and webpages being small you can Right Click on an open space on the desktop and select Properties to get the Display to open. Or you can click Start/Control Panel and look for Display or Appearance and Personalization. Open the display then select the Appearance tab and change the Font Size. It can be Normal, Large or Extra Large.

Where do you want to change the font size on the overall computer or in a word document?

In a word document you will see a number at the top of the window that represents the font size that you can change. If you have problems within word there is a Help option where you can simply type: Font Size and it will bring up instructions to change.

To change font size on everything in the computer:
Find an open space on the windows desktop and Right Click then select Properties. When the Display Properties window opens click the Appearance Tab then look down towards the bottom left you will see where you can change the font size from Normal to Large or Extra Large. Change the size then Click Apply then click OK.

You can also get the Display Properties by clicking Start/Control Panel and look for Display or Appearance and Personalization. Once the display opens click the Appearance tab to change the font size.

hi,

• To change font;
  

• Right click on free space on the desktop.
• Select properties then under display properties select Appearance.
• At the bottom is font size option.Select normal.Save.

• Icons:
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• Repeat font change procedure selecting settings under display properties.
• Move to screen resolution and re-set it.[eg to 1024by768 pixels].Save.

@mychelemyche

Try the following:

For Windows XP
1. On the Desktop, right click on an empty space and select Properties.


2. A Display Properties window will open, click on the Appearance tab and on the Font size drop-down, choose Large Fonts or Extra Large and click Apply.



For Windows Vista.
1. On the Desktop, right click on an empty space and select Personalize.



2. Click on Adjust Font Size (DPI)



3. Choose Large Scale (120 DPI) or Custom DPI (if you want bigger font)




For Windows 7
1. On the Desktop, right click on an empty space and select Personalize, then click on Display.



2. Choose Medium or Set Custom Text Size (DPI) if you want bigger font.

Change Your Font size.

1.Right Click on Desktop Click Properties "Display Properties will appear".
2.Click Appearance Change Font Size to Large Fonts or Extra Large Fonts.
3.Click Apply and Ok.

Or

Adjust Screen resolution.

1.Right Click on Desktop Click Properties.
2.Click Settings Adjust Screen resolution to 800 by 600 pixels
3.Apply and Ok.

1. at bottom left of the desktop, click on start then on the pop-up window click on Control Panel
2. in the Control Panel window, double click on Display to bring up Display Properties window
3. in the Display Properties window, click the Appearance tab
4. at the Font size near the bottom left of the Appearance window, click on the v for a size list
5. hover cursor over either Large Fonts or Extra Large Fonts then click to choose the size
6. if the changes to fonts in Display Properties example window are ok, click the Apply button
7. or click the OK button to Apply the font size changes and exit the Display Properties window

1. at bottom left of the desktop, click on start then on the pop-up window click on Control Panel
2. in the Control Panel window, double click on Display to bring up Display Properties window
3. in the Display Properties window, click the Appearance tab
4. at the Font size near the bottom left of the Appearance window, click on the v for a size list
5. hover cursor over either Large Fonts or Extra Large Fonts then click to choose the size
6. if the changes to fonts in Display Properties example window are ok, click the Apply button
7. or click the OK button to Apply the font size changes and exit the Display Properties window