Tiny font in XL 2010 VBA help pages

[mark99k]

Since upgrading to Office 2010 I've had an awful time reading the VBA help pages. At first the font was comically tiny, and the font-size adjuster button no effect. On another forum I was told to install a special CSS file, contents below:

div
{
 font-family:font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size:14pt;
 line-height:2.5em;
}

And while this did make the font larger, it didn’t change the line height, so my help pages are now almost as illegible as previously, just for a different reason (screenshot below). Also, this setting affects in the same way any webpage viewed in IE, so they range from hideous to unreadable.

My vision isn't flawless so I do have some display/font settings "turned up," but not excessively. There must an easier way for me to read VBA helpfiles without a microscope. Non-MS programs, and a few pre-2010 MS programs I'm running (like Visio 2003) don't have this issue. Is there no way to get the 2003-ish help page appearance back?

Thanks for any clues.
Mark

 

[drsarao]

Mark,
Welcome to Board!
What worked for me was this (however counter intuitive it may seem!):
Open Internet Explorer.
Go to View-->Text Size.
Set it to Large or Larger and see.
You may have to restart Excel.
If it becomes too large then change accordingly.
Hope That Helps.

 

[mark99k]

Hi drsarao. Unfortunately I tried that already and it makes only the most minor improvement (in the cramped linespacing) with a decrease in font size.

I don't understand why the 2003 system -- which was readable from all sorts of PCs with different resolutions, etc. -- was scrapped for this obviously inferior one. Often you have to dig hard just to get the basic reference page, with full syntax. (OK, that's another rant for another time... but I really miss being able to hit F1 with the cursor on a VBA keyword and immediately seeing the syntax specs.)

Mark,
Welcome to Board!
What worked for me was this (however counter intuitive it may seem!):
Open Internet Explorer.
Go to View-->Text Size.
Set it to Large or Larger and see.
You may have to restart Excel.
If it becomes too large then change accordingly.
Hope That Helps.

 

[drsarao]

Haha.
Thanks.
I think, I will avoid upgrade as long as possible.

Have you thought of re-installing / repairing?

 

[mark99k]

Did that on one machine (have XL 2010 running on 2 nearly identical Win7 PCs). No change. It doesn't 'feel' like an installation issue, TBH.