Font size in 'help' is too small

[Folklore]

After reinstalling win2k on a machine today I found that the helptext
in all applications (eg, access, xl, word, etc) is too small. I have
been unable to find either a dialog box or ini file that controls this
font size. Does anyone know how and where it is controlled from?


Thanks!

 

[Howard]

After reinstalling win2k on a machine today I found that the helptext
in all applications (eg, access, xl, word, etc) is too small. I have
been unable to find either a dialog box or ini file that controls this
font size. Does anyone know how and where it is controlled from?

The font size in Win2k help files is controlled by the Internet Explorer
(IE) Font Size. In IE, go View | Text Size & select a larger text size.

One of my many pet windows annoyances is that the help and IE text sizes
cannot be set seperately, as what I find is a good help font size is often
too large for IE and vice versa. The answer to that of course is use a
different (and IMO better) browser such as Mozilla Firebird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/why/