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fonts appear larger than they really are!

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Fazzman

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Apr 9, 2001
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AU
I have a website which I have created in Frontpage. In FP I choose a particular text size but when I go to view it in my browser (and also after I have published my site and am viewing it live) the text appears almost double the size. This has only happened in the last day or so, the text was normal up until the other day, then something changed and I don't know what!!! I have also noticed larger fonts (than usual) when I login to get my email (that's why I think its Explorer rather than FP). Can somebody please lead me in the right direction? Thanks.
 
Check the font size in the HTML file. If it's set to default, then you should change it to a specific size. That might help.

I encounter this kind of problem in Netscape usually. For instance, if a heading is bookmarked, it won't be the 16 pts I set for it; it'll go down to 10 pts.

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Fazzman,
If this is the same problem I was having your are going to laugh or cry depending on how much time it has cost you (me,about 6 hours).
Go to the stand alone MS Internet Explorer on your puter. click on view, text size, and change it to medium. It will automatically change on your IE browser in aol, compuserve, etc. For some reason the new computers with ME, XP, have the IE software set at "Largest".
hope this helps
 
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