I recently purchased a new computer with a 24" screen running Windows 7. Using Quickbooks 2009, the text size on the screen is very small. In Quicken and most other programs it is possible to select a larger font but I have been unable to find how this is done in Quickbooks. Can anyone help?
Larry Hermann
You can change the text size in reports (edit>>preferences>>reports & graphs>>Company Preferences>>change Fonts) but all other screens are driven by your computer.
I recently changed my screen resolution to use Large fonts instead of normal and that made a big difference. I'm only using a 17" monitor but with a high resolution the characters were too small. I guess my eyes are getting old.
LCD screens should only be run at their recommended resolution; otherwise everything on the screen becomes blurred. The text and icon size in Windows
7 can be adjusted easily, but this has no effect on QuickBooks. Considering the ease of doing this with the programming tools available today, the lack of adjustable text size is inexcusable. They should borrow some programmers from Quicken who know how to do it.Where in Quicken are you able to chose a larger font?
No they should be run at the resolution appropiate for the user. Often running at the monitor's optimum screen resolution, which is the clearest, results in a font size too small to read.
Game designers however write programs that take advanage of higher resolutions but do not result in smaller images just sharper ones.
otherwise
In Windows 7 the text size can be modified by going into the display settings in the control panel. 100% is the default setting and gives very small text on a large monitor, 125% which is the size I prefer on my monitor, and 150%. The icon sizes are also changed and they can be adjusted independently of text size elsewhere. Well designed Windows programs respond to these changes; QuickBooks does not.
Haskell, here is Microsoft's take on screen resolution:
"If you have an LCD monitor, check your screen resolution. This helps to determine the clarity of on-screen images. It's a good practice to set an LCD monitor to its native resolution-the resolution a monitor was designed to display based on its size. To see your monitor's native resolution, check the display settings in Control Panel.
An LCD monitor running at its native resolution usually displays text better than a CRT monitor. LCD monitors can technically support lower resolutions than their native resolution, but text won't look as sharp and the image might be small, centered on the screen, edged with black, or look stretched."
LCD monitors have square pixels and their size is fixed; if the monitor is not set to its native resolution the pixels will not line up properly and will cause some of the problems described. CRT's are much more flexible.
Larry Hermann wrote: ...
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Of all it might be, one thing can certainly be said of Intuit--they don't "design" anything software-related well...
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Why should they? Quickbooks is so much better than the competion they do not have to design it well.
A monitor's native resolution will also display text that for many users is too small to read with comfort.
Haskel LaPort wrote: ...
"Professional competence" maybe???? :)
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Steuart - Thanks so much for the reference; you've solved my problem. Now its even more of a mystery why Intuit doesn't simply make this an option item.
Larry
If you want to increase the font size in QuickBooks, here is a step-by-step article showing how to do it:
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