How to Change Zoom Increments using shortcut Word Mac

Question

Hi. I searched the forums but could not find an answer to this question.

I'm wondering if there is a way to change the zoom increments using the zoom in+out shortcut in Word for Mac.

When I zoom using the standard Command and "+" or "-" shortcut, to zoom in and out,

word zooms in by a huge increment, for example ; when I use the zoom shortcut starting at 200%, the zoom jumps straight to 500% , which seems to me to be a huge increment / leap.

[Actually, it seems to zoom by 50% increment from 150% to 200%, but as I said, it goes from 200% straight to 500%.

... 200% is too small on my screen, and 500% is much too large].

Is there a way to make it zoom in and out by just 50% increments using the shortcut?

Or smaller or larger increments?

Thanks in advance for help.

Answer 1

If you want it to just fill the screen left and right:

Open the zoom box on standard toolbar and choose:

 

This will magnify almost to the edges Actually I have the wrong thing highlighted should be Page Width.

Answer 2

Hey Phillip, thanks for that. That was actually really useful. I just made a keyboard shortcut for that.

It would be nice to know how to do what I was asking, but this is still pretty darn good.

btw. Anyone else notice the text on these forums is terribly small / microscopic and does not get larger when you zoom in? It's no big issue, I use the "screen zoom" on my mac, rather than the normal browser zoom, in order to read it, but it's kind of weird.

Answer 3

You might want to further investigate the features of your browser... E.g., Firefox (v18.0) has a Zoom Text Only option which works fine for me.

As for Word, just in case you didn't notice, keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to some of the percentages:

• ViewZoom100
• ViewZoom200
• ViewZoom75
• ViewZoomPageWidth

The only way to zoom to special percentages would have to involve a macro. However, may users don't realize that you can zoom to literally any (whole number) percentage you wish as long as it's within the program's range [e.g., 62, 263, 301, etc.]. All you need to do is click the value in the Zoom control's display window, type the digits & press return. You can do the same in the View> Zoom dialog if you wish.

Answer 4

Hi Bob! Thanks for that.

I did notice those options to assign those particular zoom percentages in keyboard shortcuts, and have since assigned one to "ViewZoomPageWidth", but none of the others are really too useful, since those are the defaults you scroll through when using the simple zoom in/out shortcut.

I was aware you can type any whole number into the zoom box, but that is a far far far far slower way of finding exactly the zoom percentage you are after.

A shortcut which allows one to use Command+ "+" or "Command+"-" to scroll through smaller zoom increments would be far faster and more precise,

rather than constantly typing in various zoom levels to guesstimate exactly what zoom you want [which is also relative to font size which can vary].

Is there any way I can make a feature request for this?

[If it does not already exist]

Thanks.

Answer 5

Here:

Sub IncreaseZoom50()

If (ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage + 50) > 500 Then

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = 500

Else

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = _

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage + 50

End If

End Sub

Sub DecreaseZoom50()

If (ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage - 50) < 10 Then

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = 10

Else

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = _

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage - 50

End If

End Sub

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