How do I increase the font size on my Mac airbook for the overall computer. Due to my eyesight I need larger print on everything, emails, desktop, web, etc. thank you

I am not sure why the writer is shocked. This kind of thing happens all the time. Even having read the posts I am unable to increase the type size. Inscrutable problems created by Apple all the time. People just give up and suffer.

for the web, while using safari you will see a button on the menu br that looks like this the big A makes the site bigger to view...the smaller A makes it smaller.

For other things you can use this combination of keys.

HOLD DOWN the Control key and use your scroll wheel on your mouse to either zoom in or out

If you want everything larger, always, you can always change the screen resolution itself, to a lower setting.

One of the downsides is that rendering of everything being displayed on a resolution differing from the native resolution of the screen, will be somewhat degraded.

Look in this pane of System Preferences.

This is actually quite easy and I am shocked that this answer has been so hard to find for so many people. This is how you make system font size larger.

• under the apple on the top left of computer click on preferences--make sure you are in finder mode first. That means that the word directly next to the apple says FINDER.
• A box will open with all your preferences. The last row on the far right will say ACCESSIBILITY. Click that Icon.
• The first in a row of display preferences will be called DISPLAY. Now for older people like myself or even those with bad eyesight, this is the place you can make that teeny tiny cursor BIGGER!!! YEAH!
• Ok, at the bottom of that box will be a clickable button that says, Open display preferences. Click that.
• For some reason the Mac book air is shipped with the display preference set to "Scaled" and this is what is causing so many problems. Go ahead and set it to BEST FOR DISPLAY. VIOLA YOU CAN NOW SEE ALL THE WORDS ON YOUR SCREEN!!!!

If you need to increase the fonts in certain programs you can find this function in the Preferences of each program--found under the name of the program opened--directly to the right of the apple, and also they can be found under view for each program.

I hope this helps those of us who are visually challenged :-)

I need to decrease the font size? How do I do it?

But thank you for trying to explain.

People will just have to sit in front of their £2000 plus machines with an old fashioned magnifying glass