Recently , I shared a tip about using OS X 10.4.8 ’s control - scroll zoom feature , which lets you speedily change the system - wide zoom ( magnification ) level on your display . It ’s quite ready to hand , specially when you require to see smaller detail on the screen .
But sometimes , you just need to change the zoom level within an lotion . Many covering have a Zoom menu option somewhere to control just that — increase the zoom level , and everything on the screen gets larger , making it easier to see small text edition , or rig tiny objects .
Microsoft ’s Office 2004 suite is no elision — Word , Excel , and PowerPoint ( but not cortege ) all feature a View - > Zoom menu point . But using it is a bit time consuming . First you choose the menu , then you pick a pre - situated zoom level , or enter your own value , and then tick OK . you’re able to also put a button on the toolbar which does something similar . Still , it ’s hardly a firm and smooth operation .
Enter the mouse . In all three of the above applications , if you hold up down Command and Control and then move the scroll bicycle on your mouse ( or drag your digit on a scrolling - enabled trackpad ) , you may rapidly increase or decrease the rapid climb level . Move the cycle up , and you ’ll whizz along in ; move it down , and you ’ll zoom along out . The amount the rapid growth changes with each check of the gyre wheel depart between the program . Book seems to go in 10 - percent steps ; Excel uses 15 - percent increase ; and PowerPoint steps through the fixed zoom tier ( admit ‘ fit , ’ which means I had a plosive at 152 percent ) in its Zoom menu . Excel and PowerPoint are also set to 400 - percent maximum rapid growth , while Word will go up to 500 percent .
Although I choose the keyboard for many task , there ’s no doubt that using the keyboard and a gyre rack computer mouse is the agile and easiest way to set a rapid growth stage in the various Office 2004 applications .
