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The Queensland Government is working towards your preferred text size being available across our websites. At any stage you can reset your preferences at this page. You can also permanently remove your preference by deleting the cookie in your browser. Your personal details are not recorded by the cookie. For full details please review our privacy policy.

Changing the text size in your web browser

You can also make the text larger or smaller on any website you visit by changing the settings on your computer.

Computers with Microsoft Internet Explorer
Computers with Netscape browser
Computers with Mozilla/Firefox
Computers with Opera
Computers with Safari

To check which version of Internet browser is installed on your machine:

Open your browser
Select Help from the top menu of your browser
Select About (followed by your browser name) from the drop down list.
The screen that comes up will display which browser and version you are using.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher:

Select View.
Select Text size from the menu.
Choose a size from the Largest to Smallest.

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0:

Select View
Select Internet Options form the menu.
Choose Fonts and change the size to Small or Large

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 (Macintosh):

Click View
Select Text Zoom
Choose a size from the options 50% - 300% or Larger or Smaller.

Mozilla/Firefox

If you are using Mozilla Firefox:

In your browser window menu, click on View.
Locate Text size, there you will have the option to increase or decrease text size.
To increase the size of text, select Increase.
To decrease the size of text, select Decrease.
To revert back to the default size of text, select Normal.

If you are using Mozilla:

In your browser window menu, click on View.
Locate Text zoom (...%), there you will have the option to increase or decrease text size.
To increase the size of text, select Larger.
To decrease the size of text, select Smaller.
Alternatively, you can adjust the size of text by selecting a percentage value (e.g. selecting 50% will decrease the text size by half).
To revert back to the default size of text, select 100% (original size).

Opera

If you are using Opera:

In your browser window menu, click on View.
Locate Zoom, there you will have the option to zoom in/out of the page.
To increase the size of text, increase the zoom level.
To decrease the size of text, decrease the zoom level.
To revert back to the default size of text, select 100%.

Netscape

If you are using Netscape 8.0:

In your browser window menu, click on View.
Locate Text size, there you will have the option to increase or decrease text size.
To increase the size of text, select Increase.
To decrease the size of text, select Decrease.
To revert back to the default size of text, select Normal.

If you are using Netscape 7.0:

In your browser window menu, click on View.
Locate Text zoom (...%), there you will have the option to increase or decrease text size.
To increase the size of text, select Larger.
To decrease the size of text, select Smaller.
Alternatively, you can adjust the size of text by selecting a percentage value (e.g. selecting 50% will decrease the text size by half).
To revert back to the default size of text, select 100% (original size).

If you are using Netscape 6.0 or 4.0:

Select Edit.
Select Preferences from the menu, a new window will open.
Select Appearance from the left hand side menu within the new window.
Under Fonts reset the size (for example, 10, 12, 14 and so on).

Safari

If you are using Safari:

Select View.
Select Make Text Bigger to increase the text size or Make Text Smaller to reduce the text size.
Or to add and use shortcuts in the address bar -
- Select View
- Select Text size, two new buttons will appear next to the refresh button, a small A and a large A.
- Select the large A to increase the text size or the small A to decrease.

Last updated 18 November 2005

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