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February 24, 2022
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Chat, Changing font size

  • February 24, 2022
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Chat, Changing font size, the instructions I read to increase "Control +" but it is not working. Any suggestions?

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    Bort
    Employee
    Employee
    February 24, 2022

    You can control the size of chat fonts in the client settings under the Accessibility tab. 

    1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop client.
    2. Click your profile picture, then click Settings.
    3. Click on the Accessibility tab. 
    4. Chat Display Size is what you want to adjust. 

    Hope that helps and please make sure to mark the solution as accepted if this information is what you needed.

    Newcomer
    April 22, 2022

    All of a sudden my chat text size got huge. I can't find the accessibility tab when I go into settings.

     

    Carl1Author
    Newcomer
    February 26, 2022

    Thank you for your response; however,

    "Chat Display Size is what you want to adjust. " does NOT show up. Could be that I have Windows 11 so the instructions are different?

    Bort
    Employee
    Employee
    February 28, 2022

    The Zoom desktop client should be essentially the same across different versions of Windows. Can you provide a screenshot of what you see instead? 

    Newcomer
    June 26, 2022

    I don't see the accessibility option, and pressing control and plus do not work. Thanks!

    Newcomer
    August 15, 2022

    Zoom Desktop. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.  Zoom Desktop menu - "Accessibility".  As you can see the existed  options can't give the ability to change the text size for Chat window at all.


    Does exists any hided/secret tricks or keyboard combinations?
    Thanks.

     

    Newcomer
    September 23, 2022

    I Just hosted a meeting and while in Chat, I hit "Control and the - (minus sign as I was at 180%) and VOILA!!! I was able to keep hitting the minus sign down to 100%. I hope this works for those like me who did not find the "Accessibility' link.

     

    Newcomer
    January 9, 2023

    It worked a treat - many thanks 

    Newcomer
    March 17, 2023

    The thing that confused me is that I need to hit shift to get the + sign, but not to enlarge the font. So, it's actually "Ctrl =" to enlarge the font and "Ctrl -" to shrink it.

    Newcomer
    May 31, 2023

    I want to make the default font size smaller. But the only smaller size is 80%, which is a tad too small. The font size of the rest of the UI text is just right. It's probably a 90%. Can we have that option?

    Newcomer
    December 19, 2023

    I'll give this a try.  My chat was huge in a meeting today so I couldn't read the messages coming through without cutting and pasting them into a doc - which was inconvenient to say the least.  I don't have an accessibility tab either.  I will try control -  tomorrow and hope it works!  

    Community Champion | Customer
    December 20, 2023

    Accessibility tab as  accessed through the desktop application.

     

     

    You can change the font size for closed captioning and chat.

    • Closed Captioning: 
      • Font Size: Click and drag slider to make closed captions font size smaller or larger.
      • Caption color: Choose from five preset colors, or click the color wheel to set a specific color, which will be used when displaying manual or automated captions. 
      • Translation color: Choose from five preset colors, or click the color wheel to set a specific color, which will be used when displaying translated captions. 
    • Always show captions: Click to automatically show captions, when the host has captioning enabled. 
    • Chat Display Size: Adjust the font size for in-meeting chats and on Team Chat. 
    • Dim Screen Share Video: Select the check box to automatically dim video when flashing images or visual patterns are detected in a meeting or webinar.
    • Screen Reader Alerts: Enable or disable

    https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0060612 

     

    Regards

    If my reply helped, don't forget to click the accept as solution button!

    Newcomer
    July 24, 2024

    How to increase the font size globally across the app? Home page and all are tiny. Your "support" chatbot failed miserably to address this issue. Are you able to help? Thanks to all for help with chat & closed captioning font size increasing.