Set font sizes for IE?

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Is there any way to alter the font sizes used by IE6?

When I select "Medium" the text on my screen is too small, I can ramp it up
to Larger or Largest, but this doesn't stick between uses.

Hopefully there is somplace in the registry where the point size is defined
for these settings and they can be altered.

Thanks!
 
Grahammer said:
Is there any way to alter the font sizes used by IE6?

When I select "Medium" the text on my screen is too small, I can ramp
it up to Larger or Largest, but this doesn't stick between uses.

Hopefully there is somplace in the registry where the point size is
defined for these settings and they can be altered.

Thanks!
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From Alan Edwards:

If View-Text Size does not stick....

---solution 1
If you are using Eudora 4.2 or greater then use Tools-Options-Viewing
Mail and uncheck "Use Microsoft's viewer"
It is Eudora that is setting the IE text size and unchecking that
option will stop it.

The key that Eudora 4.x will change is this:
[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\International\Scripts\3]
"IEFontSize"=hex:02,00,00,00

---solution 2
In Outlook 2000 go to Tools/Options/Mail Format/Fonts/International
Fonts, and for each font
change the "Font Size" entry to your desired size.

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Tried to apply a CSS file, but it didn't seem to affect anything. I might be
doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.

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Is there any way to alter the font sizes used by IE6?
The key that Eudora 4.x will change is this:
[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\International\Scripts\3]
"IEFontSize"=hex:02,00,00,00
Click to expand...

I don't use Eudora, but the above seems to have done the trick... I've set
it to 03 instead of 02.

Thanks!
 
Can someone post an example CSS file? Something that would be obvious, like
setting the font to TERMINAL or size to 300%?

Once I set up the CSS file, how long until my browser shows the difference?
I actually had a font change appear, but only after several minutes after
putting the CSS file in and several reloads of the page.

Thanks!!!
 
1. The settings of the IE window is saved with the last IE window. If you
resize a font or window size, or anything else, make sure that is the last
window closed.

2. Another option is to ignore the font in the page:

Go to Tools>Internet Options>General Tab

Click Accessabilty. Check the "Ignor font size specified on Web pages". This
usually makes the font a lot bigger since it doesn't follow the format of the
styles that the web-dev setup.

3. Here is a sample css file.
Create a text file call "styles".css where "styles" is the name you want to
call the style sheet. Inside enter:

body {
font-size: 500%;
}

If you want it bigger or smaller, adjust accordingly.

You can also specify the "%" to be a "pt" (point) or "px" (pixel) size and
other units of size too.
 
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