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Some users may find it easier to read pages in the Law Centre website if the text were enlarged. Special software is available to do this but you can also resize text from within most browsers. Instructions are given below for the most popular browsers, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and the increasingly popular Firefox browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0

Open Internet Explorer
From the drop down menu at the top of the window choose View
A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose Text Size
Another drop down menu will appear with text size options including smallest, smaller, medium, larger, largest. Select Largest. The text in your browser window should now appear larger.

If the text is now too large repeat the steps above but choose Larger instead of Largest at step 4. If it is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look for an alternative way of enlarging the text on your screen, such as screen magnification software.

Netscape Navigator 4.7, 6.2 and 7.0

Open Netscape browser
Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the + (plus) key
You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure. Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements

If the text is now too large you can make it smaller by pressing ctrl on your keyboard and the - (minus) key. If it is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look for an alternative way of enlarging the text on your screen, such as screen magnification software.

Netscape Navigator 4.6 and 4.7

Open Netscape browser
From the drop down menu at the top of the window choose Edit
A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, select Preferences
A window will now open, ont the left hand side of which you will find a list of choices. At the top of this box you will see the word Appearance and under that fonts and colours. Select Fonts. If you can not see fonts click the + (plus) symbol beside the word Appearance.
The Fonts controls will appear to the right of the screen. These are encoding, variable width font and fixed width font. Leave the encoding drop down box as western. Change the variable width font to Verdana by clicking on the downward pointing arrow to the right of the box and selecting Arial from the list which will appear. The box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18.
Underneath this there will be the fixed width font and a drop down box. This should already be set by default to Courier New.
In the box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18.
Underneath these boxes is a line saying "Sometimes a document will produce its own fonts" and three choices are offered for dealing with this. Choose the top option "Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts" by selecting the circle next to this sentence.
Now select OK.

Firefox

Open Firefox browser (free download here)
From the drop down menu at the top of the window choose View
A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, select Text Size, then select Increase.
This will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure. Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements .
Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the + (plus) key to increase the text size or - (minus) key to decrease the text size.