Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease

Subject: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:17 PM

Alright sorry its a Mac, but maybe someone here can help me. We recently set my 82 year old father-in-law up with a computer and he's really having fun with it. The only problem so far seems to be that he is having difficulty reading the print when he uses an internet search engine. I can increase the font sizes for the icons on his dektop and other stuff, but is there some way of increasing the font size for search results for Google or other search engines? I've promised to go help him out this morning, but I have been unable to figure out how to do it here on my own machine, so I think I may not be much help to him either. Talk about the halt leading the blind.

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: MMario
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:21 PM

what browser? In Netscape at least you can set preferences to overide whatever is on the page itself and increase the font size. In the version I use it is under edit; preferences; appearence; font

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: MudGuard
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:25 PM

In Internet Explorer, go to "View", then "Text Size", then select the size you want.
Then go to Tools/Internet Options, then click on Accessibility, then check "Ignore Font Sizes specified on Web pages".
MudGuard/MudBeard

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: mrs_zezam
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:27 PM

In Internet Explorer:
View - Text Size - Largest

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: mrs_zezam
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:28 PM

MudGuard beat me... I type slow.
Mrs. Z

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: coriander
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:30 PM

If he is using Explorer go to View on the top menu and select text size - using largest will make the text quite big. I think there is something similar on Netscape under the view menu. I'm not sure if this applies to older versions of browsers.

cori

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:57 PM

Thanks guys, he's using Netsape so I'll see what I can do, I knew I could cont on you. Wish me luck, with my skills I'll need it.

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 02:04 PM

Ok, I really meant it when I said I was incompetant, when I go to Netscape View it has an arrow pointing up,a command symbol and a bracket, do I push these in sequence or hold them all down together or what. I pushed what I thought the instructions meant on my keyboard and nothing happened. Duh.

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 02:12 PM

Eureeka, found preferences and increased size no problem, boy do I feel dumb!

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: MMario
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 02:12 PM

on a mac, I don't know. on a pc it's control and ] pushed at the same time.

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: jeffp
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 02:21 PM

In Netscape, pull down the Edit Menu and select Preferences. This will bring up a dialog box. On the left-hand side you will see a list of categories. Click on Fonts (under Appearance at the top of the list). Here you can select the default sizes for the fonts. Select a suitably-sized font here and then click the top one of the three buttons in the lower half of the window. It says, "Use my fonts, overriding page-specified fonts." That should take care of it. Some pages may look a little weird after that, but that's the price you pay sometimes for ignoring the page designer's decisions. If it allows you to read it, the price is small indeed.

Hope this helps.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: jeffp
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 02:22 PM

I see you got it while I was typing. Congratulations!!!

jeffp

Subject: RE: Help: Computer Assistance needed, pleeease
From: MMario
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 02:35 PM

huzzah!