A magnifier on a computer
Bring a lens up over any part of a computer screen, send it away again, and enlarge one web page without changing a setting.
Once it is switched on, you will never open Settings for this again. These are the movements that do it.
On a phone the equivalent is three fingers tapped twice on the glass. On a tablet it is the same. And in any web page or photograph, two fingers placed together and slid apart will enlarge that one thing without any settings at all.
Key points
- Summon and dismiss the magnifier on a computer from the keyboard
- Enlarge a single web page with two keys, without changing any settings
- Put one website back to its original size without affecting the others
What to remember
- On Windows, holding the Windows key and pressing plus opens the magnifier from anywhere, whatever you are doing.
- Ctrl and plus enlarges one website and remembers it. Ctrl and 0 puts that site back exactly.
Try this
On any web page, hold Ctrl and press the plus key three times. That page is now considerably bigger, and the browser will remember it for that website only. Ctrl and 0 puts it back exactly.
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