Changing the Appearance of Web Content

Some Web sites set the formatting, such as fonts, font sizes, and text and background colors, used in their pages in order to control the way the site looks on your screen. Others don't. In the latter case, you can change the appearance of content displayed in the Internet Explorer browser window by changing the formatting. You might make these changes for personal preference or for readability if, for instance, you have trouble distinguishing certain colors or find it difficult to read small text on a computer monitor.

To change the size of the text on Web pages that don't specifically set the text size:

On the Internet Explorer Page menu, point to Text Size, and then click the size you want: Smallest, Smaller, Medium (the default), Larger, or Largest.

To change the text and background colors used on Web pages that don't specifically set the color:

1.	On the Internet Explorer Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2.	On the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box, in the Appearance section, click Colors.
3.	In the Colors dialog box, clear the Use Windows colors check box.
4.	Click the Text, Background, Visited, or Unvisited color button, select the color you want to use for that feature, and then click OK in each open dialog box.

To change the font size, text colors, and background color of all Web pages (even Web pages that specify those elements):

1.	Complete the previous steps to change font sizes and set custom colors.
2.	On the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box, in the Appearance section, click Accessibility.
3.	In the Formatting area of the Accessibility dialog box, select the Ignore colors specified on webpages check box and the Ignore font sizes specified on webpages check box.
4.	Click OK to effect your changes.

To change the fonts used on Web pages and in documents that don't specifically set a text font, follow the same procedures, but click Fonts to change the fonts, and then select the Ignore Font Styles check box in the Accessibility dialog box.