Re: OTP: can anyone help with Internet Explorer on our PC?
- From: "Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman)" <laojim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:59:24 -0700
Nann Bell wrote:
IE does weird things with it's display on our PC and I can't figure out why or how to change it. My rather techno-phobic DH has developed the habit of using the PC for everything and it's easier to let him continue diong so than to reteach him to use the iMac and then how to use PC's we encounter when traveling.
So IE often shows type overlapping other words, even when we set it on the smallest size. Also, while it shows the test that are contained within tabs, it does not display the tabs. I finally updated IE to the most recent version, hoping to fix these issues, despite the slowness of updating saftware on dial-up!). Not only did it not fix these problems, but now text is displayed quite large at the medium setting. I've looked and looked through IE settings and online forums and can't find anything to explain this behavior and it's making me nuts by making Mike nuts!
Everything displays fine in Opera, but for some reason Earthlink webmail doesn't display entirely right on Opera (on any computer - new messsages aren't in bold) so switching Mike oer to that isn't feasible. Well, that and then we'd have to switcch him to IE on most computers when traveling. (Did I mention that he doesn't care for having to figure out computers?)
Anyone have any hints as to why IE might be behaving this way on our PC? Hints as to what to check out?
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Nann
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There are three controls on the spacing of letters. You can change the font, the size, and the encoding. My off hand guess is that you are asking it to display a proportionate font with one that is evenly spaced. Some fonts, like the ones used to display the text in email messages, have the same space reserved for each letter and the letters are designed to fit those spaces--the most common one is called Courier. Others are designed to have different spaces for each letter and the letters are designed to look like type in a book. If the program thinks it has variably spaced letters and you told it to use evenly spaced letters some of them will overlap. In other words, if the fonts on IE look like a typewriter and aren't evenly spaced then change the default font to Times New Roman or some such. I forget where that is so look around in the menus.
Something of the same may apply to the mail in Opera. I never had any trouble with Opera so it's hard to say for sure. Internet express usually wants a default font like Times and the Opera wants the same for the browser but wants something like a Courier font for the mail.
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