[Tutorial] How To Increase/Decrease The Text Font Size In Windows 7

As screens are getting higher and higher resolutions, or those of you that don’t unnecessarily have great eyes sight and don’t unnecessary like to squint at a small text on a screen may not know that you can actually increase or decrease font size system wide so it’s not that difficult to read a text. In this tutorial we are gone show you how you can increase or decrease the font size in Windows 7 with just few mouse clicks.


To get started follow steps below:

Step 1: Click Start menu and choose Control Panel

Step 2: In new window click Appearance and Personalization and then click Display

Step 3: In next window you will see three different options for your font size

  • Smaller – 100% (default). This keeps text and other items at normal size.
  • Medium – 125%. This sets text and other items to 125% of normal size.
  • Larger – 150%. This sets text and other items to 150% of normal size. This option appears only if your monitor supports a resolution of at least 1200 x 900 pixels.

or you can set a custom size by clicking Set custom text size (DPI) and then choose the font and save changes by clicking OK

Step 4: Once you set the desired font size click Apply button.

Step 5: Then Windows will prompt you to logoff and then logon on your computer

Step 6: Once you reboot your computer you will have larger or smaller font size system wide.

[ttjad keyword=”all-in-one-desktops”]

BorisZ

Boris Zegarac is Staff Writer at TheTechJournal. He is our Tutorial Expert. He is a web developer and web designer who is also interested in Computers and Smartphones. You can follow him at his Google + profile page

Leave a Reply