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Using hi-res monitor, some web pages display too small, how to expand?

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by AZ Bob, 2002/10/14.

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    AZ Bob

    AZ Bob Inactive Thread Starter

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    I'm using Win98 SE and IE 5.5. I recently went from a 800 X 600 CRT monitor to a 1280 X 1024 flat panel screen.

    I've changed the Control Panel - Display - Appearance - Items settings to allow increasing the size of the desktop icons and the icon labels. Also on the browser I've used View - Text Size to expand the text on most websites. Also downloaded IE5 Web Accessory from MS but it doesn't kick in at all.

    But I'm having a problem with some entire web pages which show up too small on the screen. None of the other adjustment methods work. Is there a way to zoom an entire web page? Thanks.



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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Have you tried adjusting your screen resolution to:
    1024 X 768
    1152 X 864
     

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    AZ Bob

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    Thanks, the lower resolutions do increase web page size. But I thought that using resolutions smaller than a monitor's native res. (in this case 1280 x 1024) resulted in much poorer display quality.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    "much poorer display quality "

    How does it look to you when you reset the resolution?
     
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    The graphics aren't too jaggy but the text is slightly fuzzier than I can deal with 12 hours a day.

    I reset it back to the native res. for now. If there's no specific command to expand just the web pages, I'll need to move close to the screen and squint a bit I guess!

    Thanks

    BOB
     
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