Let me ask you a question: how do you zoom in and out on a Microsoft Office document? If you’re like many people, you’ll answer that you click View, click Zoom and and the select the desired rate of magnification. If that’s what you thought, then allow us to save you some valuable clicking time: you can zoom in on Microsoft Office documents (and many other Windows applications) with the scroll wheel of your mouse.
There’s nothing complicated about zooming on Office documents with the mouse; all you need to do is hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and spin the mouse wheel forwards and back to zoom in and out. Bring the tiny details of an embedded image up-close and personal, then zoom out to take in the entire page as a whole literally a fraction of the time it takes to click around in the “View” menu. Try it out, and you’ll see results like these:
Fig. 1: Zooming in on an Excel spreadsheet.
Fig. 2: Zooming out on a Word document.
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