A simple trick that will change the way you read online for ever.
“Blow up words!?” Are you a word terrorist?
No, no….I just have this little trick that can help you read better with your computer.
Really, what is it?
It’s enlarging words from a Web site so you can read them better – easier.
Here’s how you do it:
- Open Microsoft Word or Word Pad Accessory ( my choice, simpler is best )
- Create a new document
- Open the Web page that you want to read
- Highlight the words, that you need to read, with the mouse
- Press, “Ctrl,” and “Copy,”
- Or select, “Copy,” from the “Edit,” menu
The computer stores these words onto the clipboard behind the scenes…
ScreenShot of highlighted text from Wikipedia used as example
In the new Microsoft Word Document
Press, “Ctrl,” and ”Paste.” The words are now copied into the Word Document – nothing so special about that…
Screen shot of Words pasted into a new Word DocumentOkay, smarty, what’s next!Well this is where the fun comes in…
- In Microsoft Word press, “Ctrl,” and “A”
- Or, “Select All,” from the “Edit,” menu
- Now, from Home in Word 2007 or the Font tool in Word 03-07
- Choose, “Size”
- Enlarge the entire document to size, “48.”
ScreenShot of Blown Up Words for easier reading.
The words are now very big, on your screen, for very easy reading
- Go and fix a nice cocktail, put your feet up and
- Using the arrow keys
- Scroll through the document at leisure
- You can really see the big words
Uses for this trick
- Helpful for reading lengthy documents from the Web
- Great party trick – everyone can read the screen
- In Word 2003-2007, You can even add, “Las Vegas Lights,” and a “Blinking Background,” to your big words
Blowing up words is a gas! The lucky part about it, I suppose, is that we are the first generation able to read the fine print! Have fun.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
Very informative article. I’ll be better at effectively expressing myself
on the computer, henceforth. Maybe I can improve my poetry??
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
informative post and helpful as well.nice job James and thank you
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Thank you, James!!!
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Another good one!
Thanks,
Clay
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Good title, caught me, hehe.
Some websites include the option to choose the font size, but when you don’t have it, this could be helpful.
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Positively useful information. Good job.
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Many browsers (Firefox, notably) you can force that anyway on a site, by holding down the CTRL key and rolling the mousewheel. A little handy Accessibility thing for when web page builders fail to create resizeable font. Although I have to admit that the tutorial shown are things that I did not know how to do.
I don’t work much with MSWORD or WORDPAD (although, working with msword more now that we have a more recent version.)
Great tutorial, easy to follow.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Great info and tips here James.
Cheers,
RJ
February 4th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Hi, James, how are you?
I wonder if you realized… you can modify the resolution of your screen to show larger print. Simply right-click on your desktop, go to properties then hit the tab that deals with settings or screen resolution, then lower the setting. It makes everything appear larger, including your desktop, so if you have a lot on your desktop, you might want to clean it up a little, but it’s worth trying, and less agravating than copying and pasting everything you want to see.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
great tips.
February 4th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
The method I’m showing here is if you have an really long entire document to read. I know you can enlarge words but somethimes “trapping,” them in a Word Doc helps because you have more control over the Words.
I still use the enlarging tool in the browser for shorter chunks. Thanks for the input! j
February 4th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
big, bigger, biggest
February 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
In deed you are a computer expert, well done very imformative work. Keep it up.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
A nice tip, James! Well done!
February 18th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
lovely ideas thanks pl enlarge some of my poems and read too
February 28th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Great helpful tips. Thanks.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Thanks J, I will surely use this on my future writing.
February 28th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Yeah, I learned this trick from a training manager I had. She couldn’t read the things on my screen so she would blow them up so that the letters were six feet tall. You could literally read them across the room. It does save on eye strain. Great article and well illustrated.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:23 am
This is something that I have done in the past. It is also a handy trick when you want to wave the text for later. Rather than having to bookmark the site or go hunting for it, you can capture the text in a document and go back to it later.