[Info-vax] OT: CTRL + "Scroll Wheel"

Neil Rieck n.rieck at sympatico.ca
Sun Mar 1 22:33:51 EST 2009


On Feb 26, 7:50 am, wins... at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Alan Winston -
SSRL Central Computing) wrote:
> In article <90ec7018-a1aa-4d95-b66a-5270ac655... at s36g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> writes:
>
> >Some people will already know this fact but some will not.
>
> >A few months back, I attended a CSS (cascading style sheet) seminar
> >where the instructor visited various web sites (to critique them)
> >while displaying them on an overhead projector. Whenever he was on a
> >site where the text was too small, he did the following:
>
> >Held down the control key then moved the mouse scroll wheel.
>
> >The activates the browser zoom function.
>
> Hey, cool!  I didn't know that, and I've been CTRL+ to increase the text size.
> (Still have to on the laptop; no scroll wheel on the mousepad.)
>
> -- Alan

Yep, and it seems to work on all the browsers I use.

Neil



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