If you find that the font size of some web pages is too small and hard to read, you can actually increase the font size of web pages displayed on screen with Internet Explorer. Today’s tips will be guiding you through the ways of how to change font size in Internet Explorer.

To change font size in Internet Explorer:

• Open Internet Explorer.
• From the menu bar, click on the “View” menu.
• Point to “Text Size”, then choose the text size that best meets your needs.

If the above method doesn’t make any changes in some web pages, it means that the particular web pages do not meet the proper design guidelines and their font sizes are “hard-coded”.
This blog, ontechnews.com for some reason do not meet the accessibility guidelines, therefore you cannot change the font size of ontechnews.com by using the method above in Internet Explorer.
However, there are still other ways to change font size of these web pages in Internet Explorer.

In order to change font size of web pages that with “hard-coded” font size, you must override their font settings. To do so, folow the steps below:

• Open Internet Explorer as usual.
• Click on the “Tools” menu from the menu bar, then select “Internet Options”.
• The “Internet Options” window will then pop up, click on the “Accessibility” button located at bottom right corner.
• In the “Accessibility” window, you can choose to:
  • Ignore colors specified on Web pages.
  • Ignore font styles specified on Web pages.
  • Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages.
• For example if you want to ignore the setting of font size of web pages, simply check the box of “Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages”.

Another method to change font size in Internet Explorer is to change the size of entire web page. Follow the steps below to do so:

• Point the mouse cursor to anywhere on the web page.
• Hold down the CTRL key and spin the wheel of your wheel mouse up and down.
• As you do the text will either increase or decrease depending on which way you move your wheel.

If you do not have a wheel mouse, there is a windows shortcut that is able to change font size in Internet Explorer. Follow the steps below:

• Open any web page using Internet Explorer.
• Hold down the CTRL key, then press + to increase the font size, or press – to decrease the font size.

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