Enlarging Text on the Screen
If you have a large screen, text and icons may look tiny because your Macintosh tries to display as much information as possible. If you have a hard time reading your Mac’s text, you can increase the font size. Another way to enlarge icons and text is to zoom in, which enlarges the screen like a magnifying glass.
Increasing the Font Size
In case you find text on your screen too small to read comfortably, many programs allow you to customize the text size.
In the Finder, you can magnify text by doing this:
From the Finder menu, choose View ▸ Show View Options. This displays a View Options palette, which allows you to choose a Text size and Icon size for viewing information in the Finder window, as shown in Figure 21-1
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