Ease eyestrain with Office for Mac
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• Do you spend a lot of time in front of the computer? If you’re like me, you probably spend a lot of time in front of the |
• Want to quickly increase the magnification of the document you’re working with? Use the zoom control, located in the lower right corner of the application window to increase or decrease the size of the document.
• Working with track changes or comments in balloons?
Modify the font size of the Balloon Text style to make the text in balloons easier to read. For more information about how to modify a style, see “Change a style” in Apply, change, create, or delete a style.
• Want to magnify the entire screen, including items not in Office for Mac?
Turn on the Mac OS X zoom feature. For more information, see “Turn on Zoom” in Turn on Accessibility options.
- Michael, Word for Mac writer
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I wish there were options like this in Outlook. So far, font control for that app is pretty pathetic: only default fonts and sizes for message bodies are really adjustable – and only through Preferences, not interactively with a slider. “List items” – but not ALL list items – have a small/medium/large size selection that doesn’t make much of a difference, and no font selection. Unfortunately, list font control DOESN’T apply to folder lists, which remain unacceptably small on my hi resolution monitor (worse is that the fixed font that was chosen for folders barely distinguishes between BOLD [indicating unread messages] and normal font.)
@Steve. Thanks for the feedback. We’re passing your feedback along to the Outlook for Mac engineering team to assist in feature prioritization for future updates.
I too would like to see a zoom feature for Outlook. Emails are very difficult to read unless you increase the text size to 14pt so a zoom feature would be helpful
How do I open files in Office Word 2004 into Office Word 2008?
Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
George B
I assign command-\ key to zoom in, and shift-command-\ to zoom out. I use this all of the time to help work on the text I’m editing.
In context of this topic, I would like to highlight a feature that is surprisingly missing in Outlook for Mac, though it’s available in the Windows version. The Mac version does not have a zoom control in the messages window; so there is no way to read an email that has small fonts by zooming it up. This is particularly a problem on the 15 inch Macbook with high resolution screen, where the fonts appear smaller due to the resolution.
I hope the Mac team considers adding this feature at the earliest.
It’s all very nice having the zoom facility etc but perhaps you should first visit your optometrist to reduce eyestrain and get perfect vision!
Good ideas all… but with my aging eyes I have found the ideal solution for me. On my MacBook, or iMac with the Apple trackpad, I can simply put the cursor near the place I want to magnify, hold down CNTL, and drag two fingers up or down on my trackpad. I get any magnification I want, and it works with anything on my screen.
Funny that the article appeared on a page on which the left hand top side is bright blue typeface on black. Not easy on the eyes. But I was glad for the link to changing the font in track changes balloons.
Also would be great to see the zoom control in Excel – At least I didn’t see it. Many times I have to shares a worksheet with someone at my desk and I fumble around with making it larger.
Actually, I was hoping for something that would make the letters that I see on the screen clearer. Something like the Clear Type (I believe that was the name) program for Windows laptops running the version for Windows 98.
I’ve been using MS Office for Mac since 2004, and the visual clarity of that version continues to be the best, as far as I’m concerned. I still use it, even though I sometimes have to use 2011 for some work projects. Authoring mode improves it somewhat, but it’s still not as good.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks.
I cannot figure out how to select text using keys on my Macbook. On my old WinPC, it was F8 then key combination (e.g., CTL-END). However, the F8 key on the Macbook is assigned to video/audio file manipulation. Please help. I really miss this feature, even after 7 months on Macbook, my finger memory keeps trying to use it, and am sadly frustrated each time, and have to resort to selecting with the mouse.
Sure wish they had the Zoom slide bar for Excel on the Mac!
@Mark. Thanks for the feedback. We’re passing your feedback along to the Outlook for Mac team to assist in feature prioritization for future updates.
@George. You can open files in the older .doc file format by using the Open command on the File menu.
@Ketan. Thanks for the feedback. We’re passing your feedback along to the Outlook for Mac team to assist in feature prioritization for future updates.
@Christine. There is a magnification control on the standard toolbar in Excel. Thanks for the feedback. We’re passing your feedback along to the Excel for Mac team to assist in feature prioritization for future updates.
@James. Office for Mac includes the following ClearType enabled fonts: Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel. Give one of them a try.
@Brenda. See the Word Keyboard Shortcuts topic in the Word 2011 Help. In the section “Selecting text and graphics” is the list of text selection keyboard shortcuts that you’re looking for.
@Stuart. There is a magnification control on the standard toolbar in Excel. Thanks for the feedback. We’re passing your feedback along to the Excel for Mac team to assist in feature prioritization for future updates.
Been doing Windows for eons, and have recently turned over to the wonderful MAC, It comes with an automatic zoom with your mouse right inside of your system preferences, under the “Universal” settings.
hmmmm…..
Good issue of Office for Mac Insider.
Excellent advice for easing eyestrain.
Perfect vision does not completely reduce eyestrain. The visit to the optometrist is important. Breaks are very important: for a lot of reasons, one really should be getting up from the desk every HOUR. Making the screen as reader-friendly as possible is also important.
Would be nice to have (truly) large icons available. Talk about eyestrain!
Thanks for all the technical information embedded in all these questions and answers! I actually understand some of them.
By the way, suffering eye strain as a writer, I took a trip to the optician in town and had my eyes tested again. The new glasses (for computer use only) are WONDERFUL!
Its nice to have the zoom in Word, what about having the same in Excel?
I’d love to see the entire Office 2011 suite incorporate the “pinch” & “reverse pinch” zoom features.
I do it constantly by reflex as virtually every other application I have on here incorporates it, but alas it doesn’t work for Office!
Bill Rendahl’s trick with holding down CNTL and dragging two fingers up or down on the trackpad is excellent. I would never have found it intuitively.
Thanks Bill.