Zoom in and out of any window

[Guest]

On Mac OS X you could turn zoom on or off (Option + Shift + 8) and then
using Option + Apple + + or - you could zoom in and out of any window--not
just in a web browsers (you can zoom in and out using Ctrl + + or - on any
web page but it still doesn't zoom in on the toolbars at the top of the page
and it doesn't work in applications such as Word, etc).

This feature worked great especially when making presentations and you want
to zoom in on the address bar, toolbar, etc. The only thing I can find is
the Magnifier and that doesn't work as well nor is it nearly as easy to use.

Any suggestions???

 

[Swingman]

On Mac OS X you could turn zoom on or off (Option + Shift + 8) and then
using Option + Apple + + or - you could zoom in and out of any window--not
just in a web browsers (you can zoom in and out using Ctrl + + or - on any
web page but it still doesn't zoom in on the toolbars at the top of the
page
and it doesn't work in applications such as Word, etc).

This feature worked great especially when making presentations and you
want
to zoom in on the address bar, toolbar, etc. The only thing I can find is
the Magnifier and that doesn't work as well nor is it nearly as easy to
use.

Any suggestions???

Right click on the start button, and type in "magnifier" in the search box
at the very bottom, see if that is what you need.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

This feature worked great especially when making presentations and you
want
to zoom in on the address bar, toolbar, etc. The only thing I can find is
the Magnifier and that doesn't work as well nor is it nearly as easy to
use.

Hi Mike

Unfortunately this is one of the great features on Mac OS X, which has no
direct equivalent on Windows.

The 2 main alternatives on Windows are:

1) use a screen magnifier; either the built-in Magnifier utility; or one of
the many third party magnifier applications, such as ZoomText or Lunar. Most
of these are oriented more towards vision-impaired users, rather then
demonstrations and presentations; but maybe you'll find you that fits the
bill. Here's a page with links to many magnifiers:
http://www.magnifiers.org/links/Screen_Magnifiers/Windows_Professional/
(my Mum is vision-impaired, so it's a special interest of mine)

2) In Vista, you can increase the DPI setting of the display in fractional
increments, from 100% to 500%. This is great for increasig the size of text
and screen artifacts; but you need to reboot the machine for the change to
take effect, so it isn't very flexible. But, there you have it - under
Control Panel, Personalisation, Adjust font size (DPI).

Other folks might have better ideas, hope this helps a bit.

 

[Guest]

Thank you. I went to the suggested site and the iZoom Web appears to work
pretty easily and pretty good. I appreciate your help.

Mike