Text resizing

How to make the text larger in your web browser

These instructions are for use with the browser versions listed below.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0

  • Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0 include a zoom feature that allows you to increase the whole web page.
    • Use the keyboard by pressing CTRL and ' + ' to zoom in and CTRL and ' - ' to zoom out.
  • If you are using a mouse with a scrollwheel you can scroll text and images bigger and smaller by holding down the CTRL button on the keyboard and scrolling the scrollwheel at the same time.
  • Or choose the View menu at the top of the browser window
    • A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose Text Size.
    • Another drop down menu will appear with options including smallest, small, medium, large, largest.
    • Select larger or largest.
    • The text in your browser window should now appear larger.

Chrome

Using a mouse:

  • Click the 'Customise and control Google Chrome' button (the spanner to the right of the address bar).
  • Next to 'Zoom' in the menu, click the plus or minus buttons to increase or decrease the text size.

Using the keyboard:

  • To increase the text size press Ctrl + + on the numeric keypad (hold down Ctrl and press +), or Ctrl + = on the main keyboard
  • To decrease the text size press Ctrl + -
  • To return to the default font size press Ctrl + 0

Firefox 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x

Firefox uses a Zoom feature that resizes the whole web page.

  • You can use the keyboard by holding down the CTRL button whilst pressing the '+' key to zoom in or the '-' key to zoom out.
  • Or go to View > Zoom > Zoom in OR Zoom out
  • If you are using a mouse with a scrollwheel you can scroll text and images bigger and smaller by holding down the CTRL button on the keyboard and scrolling the scrollwheel at the same time.

The default Zoom setting will automatically resize all the images present on the page as well as the text. So if you increase the size of text, images get bigger and vice versa. Our site makes use of large billboard images with graphic text which can be made larger using this feature. However, if you wish to resize only the text without enlarging the images you can disable automatic image resizing in Firefox.

  • Go to View > Zoom and check 'Zoom Text Only'.

Firefox will also remember the preferred Zoom text size setting you have used for individual sites you visit and will display them at the same size when you visit them again.

Safari

From the View menu:

  • Select 'Make text bigger', or 'Make text smaller'

Using the keyboard:

  • Hold down COMMAND key and press the '+' key on the keyboard to enlarge the text or the '-' key to decrease the text size.

Opera

From the View menu:

  • Select Zoom and then the percentage you require to increase or decrease the text.

Using the keyboard:

  • Use the '+' and '-' keys to increase or decrease the text by 10% at a time.