About Web page appearance

To make Web pages easier to read or to make them display more quickly, you can specify how you want Web pages to appear in Microsoft Internet Explorer. For example, you can specify default fonts and colors, and you can specify which page elements — such as pictures, animations, and sounds — you want to see.

In Internet Explorer, you can specify these Web content settings:

Changing default colors

Changing default fonts

Changing the default size of text

Showing or hiding page elements

Changing the resolution setting

Specifying your preferred language

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Change default colors

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Web Content.
  3. In the Page & Link area, select the colors you want.
  4. To always use the colors you select, in the Page Content area, clear the Allow page to specify colors check box.

Changing default fonts

Changing the default size of text

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Change default fonts

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Language/Fonts.
  3. In the Fonts and Size area, select the fonts you want.
  4. To always use the fonts you select, under Web Browser, click Web Content, and then clear the Allow page to specify fonts check box.

Microsoft Internet Explorer does not install a cursive font.
Tip To add a font to Internet Explorer, drag the font file your System Folder. When a message asks if you want to put the file in the Fonts folder, click OK.

Changing the default size of text

Changing the default character set

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Change the default size of text

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Language/Fonts.
  3. In the Fonts and Size area, click the size you want on the Size pop-up menu.

Tip To change the size of text on the current Web page only, on the View menu, point to Text Zoom, and then click the size you want.

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Show or hide page elements

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Web Content.
  3. In the Page Content area, select or clear the check boxes next to the page elements you want to show or hide.

Tip If you hide pictures, you can still choose to show them on individual Web pages. To show all pictures, click Load Images on the View menu. To show a specific picture, point to where the picture should appear, hold down the mouse button, and then click Load Image on the contextual menu.
Tip If pictures still appear after you clear the Show pictures check box, they’re probably animations. To hide animations, clear the Animate GIFs check box.

Allowing or preventing animations from repeating

Displaying Web pages using your own style sheet

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Allow or prevent animations from repeating

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Web Content.
  3. In the Page Content area, select the Animate GIFs check box, and then select or clear the Allow Looping check box.

Showing or hiding page elements

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Display Web pages using your own style sheet

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Web Content.
  3. Select the Show style sheets check box.
  4. Select the Use my style sheet check box, and then select the style sheet you want to use.

Changing default colors

Changing default fonts

Changing the default size of text

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Change the resolution setting

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Language/Fonts.
  3. On the Resolution pop-up menu, click the resolution you want.

Changing the default size of text

Changing default fonts

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Specify your preferred language

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Language/Fonts.
  3. In the Language area, do one or more of the following:

Changing the default character set

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Change the default character set

  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
  2. Under Web Browser, click Language/Fonts.
  3. On the Default Character set pop-up menu, click the character set you want.

Tip To change the character set for the current Web page only, on the View menu, point to Character Set, and then click the character set you want.

Specifying your preferred language

Changing default fonts

Changing the default size of text

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