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Microsoft Word provides a functionality to apply zoom-in and zoom-out operations on a document. When we apply zoom-in operation, it enlarges the size of text whereas applying zoom-out operation reduces the size of text.
A zoom operation just changes the size of the font on-screen without impacting any other attribute of the document. You can apply zoom operation in various ways which we are going to explain in this tutorial.
Here is the simple procedure to apply zoom-in or zoom-out operation using view tab:
Step (1): Click the view tab and then click Zoom button which is shown below.
Step (2): When you click Zoom button, a Zoom dialog box will appear as shown below and will display zoom options box to select a value to reduce or increase the size of the document on-screen. BY default it will be 100%, you can select 200% to increase the size of the font or 75% to reduce the size of the font. You can sent view at custom percent as well by entering a value in the given box.
You can click the Many pages down arrow and select to display multiple pages.
Step (3): Once you are done with selecting an option, click OK to apply the changes on the document.
Step (4): Try different options available, for example Page Width and Text Width.
Following screen capture shows two buttons Zoom-out which is (-) button and Zoom-in which is (+) button.
Step (1): Click Zoom-out button, you will find that your document size will decrease by 10% each time you click the button. Similar way if you click on Zoom-in button your document size will increase by 10% each time you click the button.
Step (2): Try this simple operation with different values to see the difference. Above screen capture shows 140% zoom-in view of the document.
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