FONT SIZE

[Smiley]

There seem to be 2 places in IE to change font size:
Tools | Internet Options;
Fonts to select the web & plain text fonts and
Accessibility to select or ignore font styles & sizes

I simply cannot find the right combination to be able to have consistent
fonts on all pages. If I check "ignore font size" then the pages use my
font but the font seems to vary from web page to web page. I have to click
the "size" button on the toolbar. With this unchecked some web pages have
really BIG fonts and some have such small fonts that I cannot read them and
have to select the "ignore font size" again.

No combination works all the time. I have to change the settings frequently
and it is very frustrating.

Can anyone tell me how to set the options so that I won't have to do that
anymore?

TIA!

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Assign a personalized style sheet to all pages.

IE, tools menu, Options, Accessibility button, check "Format documents..." and assign a style sheet,

something like:
--my.css--8<---
BODY {
margin-left: 40px;
margin-right:20px;
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 9pt;
font-style: normal;
line-height: 12pt;
color: #000000;
background: #ffffff;
}
---cut--8<---
Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1.html

 

[ultra_classic]

There seem to be 2 places in IE to change font size:
Tools | Internet Options;
Fonts to select the web & plain text fonts and
Accessibility to select or ignore font styles & sizes

I simply cannot find the right combination to be able to have
consistent
fonts on all pages. If I check "ignore font size" then the pages use
my
font but the font seems to vary from web page to web page. I have to
click
the "size" button on the toolbar. With this unchecked some web pages
have
really BIG fonts and some have such small fonts that I cannot read
them and
have to select the "ignore font size" again.

No combination works all the time. I have to change the settings
frequently
and it is very frustrating.

Can anyone tell me how to set the options so that I won’t have
to do that
anymore?

TIA!

Greetings Smiley,
I hope I am enterpreting your post correctly. It seems you wish to be
able to control the size of your fonts in Internet Explorer...in other
words you wish to "set it and forget it". If this is correct, one of
these two methods will work for you, if you are using one of the below
listed mail programs or have them installed on your system. I went
nuts with this problem and #2 worked for me. I do not profess to
understand why, but it did. :?:

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 I.E. text size and unchecking that
option will stop it.
The key that Eudora 4.x will change is this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\International\Scripts\3]
"IEFontSize"=hex:02,00,00,00

Solution 2
In Outlook 2000/2003 go to Tools/Options/Mail
Format/Fonts/International Fonts and for each font change the "Font
Size" entry to your desired size.

Best of luck,
ultra_classic