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Winkey + Scroll for quick access to the magnifier

Submitted by alirobe on January 4, 2009 to Usability

Occasionally, I want to quickly blow up a small portion of the page to show to someone accross the room, or do some fine detail work in applications without zoom functionality. The magnifier is a great way to do this, but it takes too long to get to.

Implement a shortcut key (Winkey + Scroll) that opens the magnifier and enables the zoom setting to be modified by using the windows key and the scroll wheel - similar to the mac's zooming capability.

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Discussion (6 comments)

antiufo wrote on January 4, 2009, 9:48am

+1
Totally agree

hoopla_punta wrote on January 4, 2009, 10:06am

Yep, into the system shell is the way to go!

longzheng wrote on January 4, 2009, 10:08am

+1
I love the scroll zoom in OSX, so useful to "fullscreen" non-full screen content like an application.

alirobe wrote on January 4, 2009, 10:16am

Changed solution description.

tino wrote on January 4, 2009, 4:01pm

Did you know that you can do this with WIN+"+" ? ;)

But mouse wheel would also be very nice.

alirobe wrote on January 4, 2009, 7:47pm

@tino - no, neat! It's not in the accessibility documentation, which I checked before I submitted this. Thanks! Shame it's not in Vista.

I still think a mouse wheel would be more obvious - it's what I went for when trying to guess, anyway.

tsilb wrote on January 25, 2009, 10:26pm

Hah, I submitted this as a bug on 01/08/09 (See Feedback ID 392446). Just now found this page.

Bug was closed as "Won't Fix" with the following comments:

This was a planned feature, but was cut early on.
Digging deeper on this, it turns out the WinKey + ScrollWheel brings up the start menu. It becomes very difficult to get around that, apparently.

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