[libreoffice-users] Re: lower part of dialog boxes not visible

On 05/17/2011 01:33 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 10:58 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> ...
> > Good evening from Germany (instead of my usual Japan ...)
> > Thank you.
> > That personalize trick "works" (barely), but I am afraid I am too old to
> > work a whole day long with stuff displayed on the screen
> > so small, that I need a microscope to read it. There are only two options I
> > can see: 100% and 125%.
> > The latter one I chose upon setting the PC up (bought extra for this trip)
> > and is the minimum I need to read anything on the screen. 100% is not really
> > an "option".
> > And even with the 100% option the lowest items in the dialog box are only
> > half visible. The other half is still hidden behind the lower task bar.
> >
> > Is this really the only way to get to dialog boxes and menus?
> > (I suspect, there are a lot of other similar boxes I have not yet
> > tried/used) that too disappear beneath the horizon!)
> ...
>
> Sorry, but that's pretty much my limit w/Win7. I only booted into it to
> see if I could figure out your problem. Hopefully someone with Win7
> experience will come along & assist further. You could always shrink the
> partition & install Ubuntu to dual boot :-)

OK. I still have Win7 booted (I'm testing Ubuntu Natty installs in
VMWare & VirtualBox on it) & think I may have figured out how to get you
something that _might_ help.

Go back to the Display setting & instead of setting to 125%, click the
item on the left menu 'Set custom text size (DPI)'. Scale that to 110%
(hold the left mouse key down & slide the scale to adjust) & check 'Use
Windows XP style DPI scaling', and click OK & then 'Apply'. You'll need
to log out/in for the setting to take effect. Give that a try. If not
you can experiment with other percentages. I found that I could see the
'Search all sheets' at 120% as well.

Gary



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