>>Well, besides the fact that it is rather rude to force the users to view the screen the way you want it seen, all it takes is setting IE to over-ride the font settings and we take the control back. I have mine set that way all the time. It makes some sites unusable. Those sites I don't go back to. If they want my business, they can make their sites friendly to people who can't read tiny writing.
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>Michelle;
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>You may construe this as being ‘rude” but there are times when such action is necessary for the success of a project. Management at our corporation was very happy when I implemented this concept for a major web application I created and is using it for other web applications. Otherwise, we had some very serious problems with text of labels and combo boxes, etc. Instead of having absolute positioning of each object (we are using complex data entry forms with up to 100 fields on a form, and over 50 forms), if the user changed the font size at the system or browser, objects were all over the page, wrapped, and in general very ugly.
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>It made it nearly impossible to enter data if large fonts were used and difficult to see if small fonts were in use, and to shut down the assembly line costs $10,000 a minute. A compromise was reached and users were asked what they liked and this is what I used. So far no complaints about fonts being too small - which is not desired - who needs eye strain? Should that be a problem in the future I have to go to one INCLUDE file to make the change for the entire application.
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>There is not always one answer to a question and you cannot expect to please everyone. The end result in this case is that the users and management are very happy and that is important to the success of any project.
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>Tom

Hi Tom,

For an internal-ONLY application I see absolutely no problem with this approach.

But for a 'public' web site it really is an entirely different story. You just can't do that to people or, as Michelle has said, they simly don't go back there again. That, of course, defeats the whole purpose of any 'public' web site.

Hopefully MS WILL fix this and the issue will be moot with XP.

JimN