Tip 001: Partial Display of Dialog Boxes

We have received two reports that users could not see an entire dialog box.  We have discovered that this is due to using the Large Fonts setting in W95.  An example of the difference between Large Fonts and Small Fonts illustrated below:

Large Fonts Small Fonts
LF1.jpg (20442 bytes) LF1a.jpg (18266 bytes)

Large Fonts can also affect files that you import into the Ethnograph editor from your word processor.  As many as 8 characters might be cut from the end of a line when it is imported and numbered.  This is an artifact of the Large Fonts setting.

If you have either of these problems, do the following to check if your display is set to use Large Fonts.

  1. First, close all programs.
  2. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel
  3. Click Display
  4. Click the Settings Tab
  5. In the lower right corner make sure that Font Size is set to Small Fonts.
  6. Click OK.

If you change this setting, W95 will need to restart your computer to change from Large Fonts to Small Fonts.

Theoretically this will solve the problem. 10-07-98