Internet Explorer screen too wide.

[Jim Howes]

I've got a Windows 2000 system. The Internet Explorer screen is about twice
the width of the visible screen such that one has to use the horizontal
scroll bar to see the material on the entire screen width. How can I change
it?

Sounds more of a web page 'feature' than an IE problem.

IE should wrap text at an appropriate point (although if it's ability to scale
stuff to fit a page is anything to go by, what is 'appropriate' may vary
somewhat from page to page) unless the web composer has done
something annoying like used non-breaking spaces in their text to force long lines

If you are saying that the window itself is too wide for the screen, then just
grab the edge and make it smaller, then drag the window back onto the screen via
the title bar. If you cannot see the edge, use ALT-SPACE then M to move the
window using the keyboard cursor keys (then enter) to make the edge visible, and
resize as appropriate.

Any particular site?

Another thought is that it may be related to fonts. Are you forcing IE to use
any customised fonts (not that I have a clue how you do that; in Firefox it's in
Tools->Options, Content. I cannot find such a tab in IE.

 

[Don J]

I've got a Windows 2000 system. The Internet Explorer screen is about twice
the width of the visible screen such that one has to use the horizontal
scroll bar to see the material on the entire screen width. How can I change
it?

Don J

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