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Shortcut to Increase/Decrease Font Size In Any Browser

Shortcut to Increase/Decrease Font Size In Any Browser

October 17, 2017 by Mitch Bartlett 10 Comments

Sometimes the text may be too difficult to read in your web browser. Since I use 3 different browsers (Chrome, IE and Firefox) I always struggle to find the menu where I can increase or decrease the font size. Fortunately, I discovered a nice, universal way to make the font larger or smaller on any web page and in virtually any web browser in Windows, Linux, or MacOS.

Windows & Linux

  • Hold down the “CTRL” key on your keyboard while spinning the mouse wheel up to zoom in.
  • Hold the “CTRL” key on your keyboard while spinning the mouse wheel down to zoom out.

Don’t have a wheel on your mouse? No problem!

  • Hold “CTRL” down while pressing the plus key (+) to zoom in.
  • Hold “CTRL” down while pressing the minus key (–) to zoom out.

These options work across most popular web browsers such as Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox.

MacOS

  • Hold “Command” down while pressing the plus key (+) to zoom in.
  • Hold “Command” down while pressing the minus key (–) to zoom out.

FAQ

How can I reset the fonts back to default size?

Windows users hold “CTRL” and press zero “0“. MacOS users hold “Command” and press “0“.

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Comments

  1. Tom says

    December 1, 2022 at 7:56 am

    This used to work but a recent Windows update must have changed this command. I’d like to know what replaced CNTL + up/down arrow?

  2. mindy lehman says

    September 6, 2022 at 11:51 am

    yes

  3. B) says

    October 23, 2020 at 6:45 am

    I accidentally did this once and didn’t remember the command, thanks for helping me bring it back to normal lmao

  4. Juan Garcia says

    October 1, 2020 at 11:20 am

    This is exactly what I needed! Thank you for the “way too easy” fix.

  5. Karen S Punturo says

    March 15, 2020 at 9:41 am

    Doing my taxes. Thanks! I have enough stress as it is..

  6. STEVEN VISEK says

    November 20, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!! Big help!

  7. Wendy L Cutler says

    October 22, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    I have no idea what I did on my Microsoft Surface laptop to increase the font size, but thank you, CRTL + 0 (zero) set it back to the size it had been.

  8. Susan says

    August 18, 2019 at 12:15 am

    No just made page larger. Not the type in particular paragraph.

  9. Sandra Holeman says

    July 12, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    No, my keyboard is malfunctioning. No answer is given for this.

  10. uhyzysak says

    February 5, 2019 at 2:42 am

    It’s not just fonts, I tried FF, Chrome, Edge and IE on windows, and this zooms, pictures and everything.

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