Zooming the Help Window
Sometimes, when you look into the OOo application help, the right side help page is shown with less than 100 percent zoom. This makes reading the help text a difficult task.
Fortunately, it is possible to get back the right view of the help page, although this requires several steps:
1. Close the Help viewer.
2. Choose File - New - HTML Document.
Now you are in Writer/Web. You can check this in the View menu, which contains now a HTML Source command.
3. Choose View - Zoom. Set the zoom factor to at least 100 percent or higher.
4. Press F1 to open the Help Viewer.
The Help viewer uses the same settings that you define for Writer/Web (html) documents.
Uhm - but this is a bug, isn't it? One which deserves the keyword "usability", I'd say.
Posted by Frank Schönheit on September 17, 2008 at 09:44 PM CEST #
CTRL + mouse wheel make the trick.
Posted by Gouchi on September 19, 2008 at 05:40 PM CEST #
On my Windows XP system, I can place my mouse cursor on that right side screen, then hold down the "ctrl" key and roll my mouse wheel...and the text size changes nicely. Of course, this also works nicely in the Writer text area itself.
Posted by Bh on February 05, 2009 at 11:22 PM CET #
IMO this adjustment should be done from some tab (maybe the OpenOffice.org > Accessibility > Miscellaneous Options) of the Options... .
Posted by Eustace Frilingos on July 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM CEST #