Resizing text in Quickbooks
Larry Hermann
Using Quickbooks 2009, the text size on the screen is very small. In Quicken
and most other programs it is possible to select a larger font but I have
been unable to find how this is done in Quickbooks. Can anyone help?
Larry Hermann
Laura
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You can change the text size in reports (edit>>preferences>>reports &
graphs>>Company Preferences>>change Fonts) but all other screens are driven
by your computer.
I recently changed my screen resolution to use Large fonts instead of normal
and that made a big difference. I'm only using a 17" monitor but with a high
resolution the characters were too small. I guess my eyes are getting old.
Larry Hermann
everything on the screen becomes blurred. The text and icon size in Windows
7 can be adjusted easily, but this has no effect on QuickBooks. Considering
the ease of doing this with the programming tools available today, the lack
of adjustable text size is inexcusable. They should borrow some programmers
from Quicken who know how to do it.
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Haskel LaPort
> LCD screens should only be run at their recommended resolution;
No they should be run at the resolution appropiate for the user. Often
running at the monitor's optimum screen resolution, which is the clearest,
results in a font size too small to read.
Game designers however write programs that take advanage of higher
resolutions but do not result in smaller images just sharper ones.
Larry Hermann
settings in the control panel. 100% is the default setting and gives very
small text on a large monitor, 125% which is the size I prefer on my
monitor, and 150%. The icon sizes are also changed and they can be adjusted
independently of text size elsewhere. Well designed Windows programs respond
to these changes; QuickBooks does not.
Haskell, here is Microsoft's take on screen resolution:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Getting-the-best-display-on-your-monitor
And some quotes from that section:
"If you have an LCD monitor, check your screen resolution. This helps to
determine the clarity of on-screen images. It's a good practice to set an
LCD monitor to its native resolution-the resolution a monitor was designed
to display based on its size. To see your monitor's native resolution, check
the display settings in Control Panel.
An LCD monitor running at its native resolution usually displays text better
than a CRT monitor. LCD monitors can technically support lower resolutions
than their native resolution, but text won't look as sharp and the image
might be small, centered on the screen, edged with black, or look
stretched."
LCD monitors have square pixels and their size is fixed; if the monitor is
not set to its native resolution the pixels will not line up properly and
will cause some of the problems described. CRT's are much more flexible.
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dpb
...
> ... Well designed Windows
...
Of all it might be, one thing can certainly be said of Intuit--they
don't "design" anything software-related well...
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Haskel LaPort
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Why should they? Quickbooks is so much better than the competion they do not
have to design it well.
>
> --
Haskel LaPort
> In Windows 7 the text size can be modified by going into the display
> settings in the control panel. 100% is the default setting and gives very
> small text on a large monitor, 125% which is the size I prefer on my
> monitor, and 150%. The icon sizes are also changed and they can be
> adjusted independently of text size elsewhere. Well designed Windows
> programs respond to these changes; QuickBooks does not.
>
> Haskell, here is Microsoft's take on screen resolution:
>
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Getting-the-best-display-on-your-monitor
>
> And some quotes from that section:
>
> "If you have an LCD monitor, check your screen resolution. This helps to
> determine the clarity of on-screen images. It's a good practice to set an
> LCD monitor to its native resolution-the resolution a monitor was designed
> to display based on its size. To see your monitor's native resolution,
> check the display settings in Control Panel.
A monitor's native resolution will also display text that for many users is
too small to read with comfort.
dpb
...
> Why should they? ...
"Professional competence" maybe???? :)
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Steuart
Larry Hermann
its even more of a mystery why Intuit doesn't simply make this an option
item.
Larry
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Larry Hermann
article showing how to do it:
http://qbblog.ccrsoftware.info/2008/09/relief-for-tired-quickbooks-eyes/
Larry
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