topic Re: Text & Tab Size in PCs & Accessories

Text & Tab Size

PatrickSanderson — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:37:08 GMT

Hi,

This is probably a very basic question, but when I open some programmes on my Sony Flip 15 I seem to have really small text on the tabs.

How do I adjust this??

A similar thing happens when I open a few tabs in Chrome. Rather than use the whole of the top of the screen for the tabs, they only go half way across.

Can anyone help??

Thanks

Re: Text & Tab Size

sgdavies — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:49:04 GMT

Hi Pat, yes pretty straight forward, on internet explorer, or chrome, top right of the application should be a menu, delve into that menu structure, and you will see, magnification size, or something like that, make sure it is about 100%, then try to experiment with that magnification to find your ideal setting, good luck.

Re: Text & Tab Size

PatrickSanderson — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:04:06 GMT

Thanks for the reply, but that zoom seems to change the size of the content in the window, but not the tabs themselves

See example

Re: Text & Tab Size

PatrickSanderson — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:06:55 GMT

And here is an example of the view on a programme. All the menus and tabs are tiny....

Re: Text & Tab Size

sgdavies — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:47:42 GMT

Hi Pat, go to Control Panel-Appearance and Personalization-Display. Here you can change sizes to Title bars amongst other things.

Re: Text & Tab Size

PatrickSanderson — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:09:23 GMT

Thans for that. But it still didn't have an efferct of the Sony Movie Studio, or other programmes like that.

Any other ideas?

Cheers

Re: Text & Tab Size

sgdavies — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:22:22 GMT

Hi Pat, no thats pretty much my two bobs worth

Re: Text & Tab Size

PatrickSanderson — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:41:22 GMT

Thanks anyway.

It's a nightmare with some programmes, you can barely see the text. And some programmes are Sony ones, like 'Sony Movie Platinum'.

It's bizarre....

Re: Text & Tab Size

Thalamus. — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:23:57 GMT

PatrickSanderson wrote:

A similar thing happens when I open a few tabs in Chrome. Rather than use the whole of the top of the screen for the tabs, they only go half way across.

Hi Patrick,

I had someone using windows 8 ring and ask about the tabs only filling half the screen on Google the other day..

I am not using windows 8 so after a bit of searching I suggested a couple of possible solutions that I had found but as I have not heard back I can't confirm if they have helped..

I can't remember the links for this solution now but try the following..

1) Close Chrome

Right click the Chrome icon and select properties..

In the properties window select the compatibility tab..

Then enable Disable display scaling on high DPI settings..

Click Apply followed by OK..

Aother option, which again I do not have the link for, see below, is one which I did actually copy & paste..

By Julian Moulton

If you go into Chrome settings, click "Get Themes", and aaply [certain] themes, you should find that tabs now will fill up the entire bar of the window (and therefore not be squished). I'm using Monochrome by Berlinski and that works perfectly.

Re: Text & Tab Size

PatrickSanderson — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:33:27 GMT

That is great. The second suggestion worked with Chrome. So thanks for that.

Strangely, the first thing you told me actually made chrome into the similar problems that I am having with adobe premier elements and the movie studio, ie, the text on the tabs and dropdown menus go really small.

I am still not sure how to fix that, and on busy menus (likethe movie studio) it makes it hard to read.

Thanks for the help anyway, it's much appreciated....!