If Mr Bentley-Mix (my _second_ stalker! am I lucky, or what?) had
bothered to look at the posting times of my two suggestions, he would
have seen that the second suggestion was an afterthought, nearly four
hours later -- precisely because, unlike my stalkers, who are sure
they always know the one right answer to every question, I remember
what it was like to be new to word processing (some 25 years ago), and
I evidently have considerably more empathy with the people who
typically ask such questions -- I will not assume knowledge not
explicit in their postings. (A trait that Suzanne possesses in
abundance, as well.)
On Nov 15, 8:22*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Changing the zoom setting changes the apparent font size. We know from
reading posts here that users often think the font has become larger because
they have inadvertently zoomed in. I agree that Peter's interpretation of
the request was farfetched, but I think it was a valid comment in any case.
If you want to print something out in a larger font size to be more
readable, that's one thing, but often people do just want it to be more
readable onscreen, and many users are unaware of the Zoom control.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
"Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com"gordon(dot)bentleymix(at)gmail (dot)com wrote in message
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Oh pul-eeze! That's gumby reasoning if ever I heard it! Stretch anymore
and
the wires will start poking out.
The OP makes very clear reference to changing the font size from one
specific value (11) to another (16). No where does the OP say anything
about
making the font more readable on the screen. And while many tasks in Word
can
be accomplished in a multitude of ways, changing the zoom setting
absolutely
does *NOT* change the font size. Peter has once again ventured outside his
very limited area of expertise and is talking through a hole in his hat;
stop
defending him.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Well, in fairness, the OP didn't actually say he wanted the font to be
larger on printout, and it could very well be that he does just want them
to
be more readable onscreen. I don't think this is particularly likely, but
it's not impossible, and in Word there is always more than one way to
skin a
cat.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com"
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Yeah, that'd do it. Everybody *knows* that when you set the zoom in
Word
it
automatically increases the font size on printed documents as well.
More honking from the plonker...
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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Or maybe you just want to set your Zoom to 150%?
On Nov 15, 11:29 am, JE wrote:
My word docs always open at font size 11. I wouldm like to change
this
to 16.
How do we do that?
Thanks, JE