When you’re visiting a web page, it can sometimes be useful to zoom in and make everything on the page larger and easier to read. In Internet Explorer you should have a little ‘zoom’ button in the bottom-right corner of the window that makes this easy – each click on the button zooms the page to 125%, then 150%, then back to 100% (normal size) again. For more options, click the tiny arrow beside that button and choose a zoom setting ranging from 50% to 400%.
But what if you can’t see that zoom button? Here’s the solution:
1. Press the Alt key on your keyboard (to the left of the space bar) to make Internet Explorer’s menu bar appear.
2. Open the View menu and move the mouse down to Toolbars.
3. On the sub-menu that appears, click Status bar.
The status bar appears at the bottom of the window, with this zoom button at its right-hand end. (If you want to hide the status bar again, just repeat the same steps)
You don’t necessarily need this status bar in order to zoom in and out of the web page, there are other ways:
- Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and roll your mouse’s wheel away from you to make everything larger, or towards you to make it smaller.
- Hold down the Ctrl key and repeatedly tap the + key on the top row of your keyboard to make everything bigger, or the – key to reduce it.
- Click the cog icon in the top-right corner of the window, move the mouse to Zoom and click a zoom setting.
Happy viewing
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