A rather brute force solution is to change the resolution settings on your
machine. Right click on the desktop, click on PROPERTIES, then SETTINGS.
Moving the slider bar under "Screen Area" to the left will increase the size
of the image.
Antony Davies, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Finance, Economics, and Statistics
John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
412-396-6268
http://www.bus.duq.edu/faculty/davies
-----Original Message-----
From: T Nguyen [mailto:nguyen2@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:42 AM
To: tch-econ
Subject: bigger screen for students to see
Dear Colleagues:
I use a laptop for classroom demos (not Powerpoint slides which are
great) of some statistical calculations. The problem is that what's
showing on the projector is too small (font size) for students to read
from the far back; and there's no facility to change the font size from
the program I'm using. I tried the Magnifier utility bundled with
Windows (the kind of software for visual-impaired users) but this is too
cumbersome. Has anyone had any experience with this? I remember that
there was a thread on projectors but that's not what I'm after. Does
anyone know any software that can make the screen looks bigger at will
(say, blows up from standard 12 point size to 18, 20 or 24 point size)?
Any other pointer or suggestions would be great.
Trien Nguyen, University of Waterloo
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