I'm going mad. I recently switched to Lion from W7. I don't want screen zoom. I just want to zoom in a Safari or a Preview window using kntrl and scroll. When I press kntrl and scroll, it zooms in a part of the screen but the image quality gets worse and worse. Please help! Waiting for you suggestions...
In Safari, see the zoom options in the View menu. Command-plus and command-minus do the zooming, and you can opt to zoom the entire page (similar to what an iPad or iPhone might do when you pinch) or zoom only the text.
In Preview, also in the View menu are similar zoom in and out items with identical keystrokes.
Thanks, but I would prefer an easier way 🙂 like the ctrl + scroll in W7. Can't I do that in Lion??
Command-+ isn't easy??
Well, at least it is not the way I am used to... Another problem is I can't do the CMD -+ on my Macbook Pro keyboard. I press cmd +- but it doesn't work..
I press cmd +- but it doesn't work..
Are you pressing three keys (command, plus and minus) or only two (command and plus)? You should be doing the latter. Is that not working in Safari or Preview?
Well, I do the latter, of course. But macbook doesn't have a numpad, so I press "4" along with CMD, I also tried it adding the FN key. Still doesn't work...
4? Sounds like you must be using a different keyboard than I am. On the US keyboard, the =/+ key is next to the delete key, in the upper right corner. If your keyboard shows + as being above the 4, try pressing command-shift-4.
Actually, I use the Turkish keyboard. And command-shift-4 is a shortcut for screen-shot 🙂
Yeah, forgot about that. What keystroke is listed for those items in the View menu, then? If it says command-+, you could try defining new keystrokes for those items using System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
In Safari choose Customize Toolbar then add the Zoom feature
Good idea! I can also add a zoom feature, but this cmd +- thing is important. Sometimes i need to enlarge the font of a text in Word but I cant use it. How can I change the keyboard shorcut for cmd +-, I couldn't find it in preferences > keyboard > keyboard shortcuts?
You don't change it by specifying a new shortcut for command-+, you do it by assigning a new shortcut to a specific menu item, by name. So you would need to look up the name of the appropriate menu item in Word, which is likely to be different.
Alternately, there are ways to remap the '+' character to a different key, but I'm not familiar with how that is done.
This is from System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Universal Access
The zoom out/in items in that preference pane are the same as the control-scroll zooming that yusufcom has already said is not suitable.
For months now, I have not been able to operate zoom in with the 'Command +' on the 'Turkish - QWERTY PC' layout. Sometimes i went as far as changing the keyboard to 'French', just to have access to working 'Command +'. The correct key combination to replace 'Command +' is 'Shift Command 0' (which amounts to pressing 'Command =', but does not work if caps lock is on, does a kind of reset to original format of the window ..)
Window Zoom, not screen
