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Old June 11th, 2004, 05:53 AM
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Need help on changing text size

I suspect the OP wants the *proportional* difference of the text size
preserved. If you increase 10 pt and 36 pt text to 14 and 40, the
proportional difference is not the same. I was not suggesting that the other
shortcuts will do this, either, just pointing out that they exist. I don't
know of any simple way of increasing a variety of font sizes proportionally.

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"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message
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Not a good alternative. The OP's objectives are "difference in text
size to be preserved" and "increase the size of all text by 4 points".
If some text is 10 point and some 11 point, what happens when you press
Ctrl+ ? If the result escapes you, some text that is supposed to be
smaller than other text ends up being all the same size, and pressing
Ctrl+ a second time enlarges some text by 4 points but other text by
only 3 points.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Alternatively, you can use Ctrl+ and Ctrl+ to increase/decrease the

font
size to the next listed size. If the difference escapes you, look at the
font size list: Using Ctrl+] will increase 12-pt text to 13 points,

while
Ctrl+ will increase it to 14.

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"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message
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Hi Luke. Yes, it is possible. Press Ctrl+A to select the entire
document, then press Ctrl+] (that's the right bracket) to increase the
font size by 1 point, or Ctrl+[ (that's the left bracket) to decrease
the font size by 1 point.


Luke Sineath wrote:


Er, let me rephrase this. Suppose I have a document in which most of


the

text is 10pt., and the rest is 12pt. I want the difference in text

size

to

be preserved, but I need to increase the size of all of the text. So I


want

to have 14 and 16pt. text in my document. Is there a way to do this,
globally? What I'm doing now is highlighting a portion of text, and
changing its size. What I want to do is select the entire document,

and
increase the size of all text by 4 points. Is this possible?


"Luke Sineath" wrote in message
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This is what I want to do: with a document that contains different

text
sizes, I want to globally alter size, while preserving those


differences.

Basically, I want to globally add or subtract from txt size.