Today’s Personal Tech Tip: Increasing Font Size

All of us need help with the bewildering amount of technology.  From time to time, I am going to give tips I come across that help bridge the widening digital divide between users and techsters.  Today tip lets you increase the fonts on the page you are looking at with a simple maneuver.

If you are in a web browser (Explorer or Mozilla) or reading an email in Outlook Express, hold down your Ctrl key and spin the wheel. It makes the text larger or smaller depending on which way you spin. For Opera users, it magnifies both the images and the text. This also works in Microsoft Word and Excel