making text size "stick in IE - basic gumbie user question, not HTML

keeps resetting to "small"

[ergophobe]

ooohhhhhh!

That's the cry of agony of someone forced to use both IE6 and the MS site (and who has forgotten how to do much of anything with IE except test pages once they work in my main browsers).

Why? Because I have a lot of stuff to go through there lately (doing some VBA programming and I'm a neophyte), and naturally, their site function in only one brand of browser.

Anyway, no matter what I do to change the View¦Text Size¦ option, it keeps resetting to small. Does IE have no way to make this stick?

Tom

[ergophobe]

Forget it.

Tools ¦ Internet Options ¦ Accessibility ¦ Ignore Font Sizes Specified on Web Pages

Tom

[tedster]

I use IE less and less - mostly for testing my own work. I appreciate this tip - it's helpful for people I deal with in many contexts, and I either forgot the option was there or never knew it.

[ergophobe]

I'm sure I never knew, since I don't think IE6 was ever my default browser and mostly I just don't visit sites that don't work in other browsers.

In this case, I had no choice, so I finally poked around. It's actually not bad. You have the option of ignoring font styles, font sizes and page colors. You can also stipulate a user stylesheet to override the page styles.

Pretty good really. The thing that is frustrating, is you get pretty useless options when you look under Tools ¦ Internet Options ¦ Fonts. As it turns out, there you can't turn off font sizing. It was only upon looking at it for the fifth time that I saw "Accessibility" and thought "Aha!"

Tom

[tedster]

Yes, that IE interface has been lousy for many years. First they insist on giving common things their own proprietary name. Then they use some organizing scheme that relates more to their internal code than user friendliness.

I wonder if they ever did any usability testing at all.

When I first started using Opera 3 as my default, it was the user friendly interface that turned me on, along with the small footprint.