Some of you would like bigger text on your screen, when looking at this website, or when reading e-mail.

Use the “View” drop-down in your Internet browser or in your mail client, and look for “Text Size.”

In Microsoft Internet Explorer you will find Largest, Larger, Medium, Smaller, Smallest as choices.

In Foxfire you can go to View but you can also hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys with your left fingers and tap the + key twice, a couple of times. The font increases at least two sizes. (To make the font smaller hold down Ctrl and Shift and tap the – (minus) key twice.)

In Thunderbird, the Mozilla mail client, the same Ctrl & Shift plus ++ increases the font size in an e-mail.

Microsoft Outlook has a a View, Text size but it doesn’t seem to do much, perhaps because my incoming mail is all html and not pure text.

On Macs using Apple Mail–at least versions running on OS 10.4.x–with an email selected, all you need to do is go to Format>Style>Bigger (or Smaller) or use the shortcuts, Command + (or Command -). You may need to repeat these commands until you reach the size you like, though there does seem to be a max and minimum. [thx Harry H. and Bea B.]