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ahsteele
ahsteele

Reputation: 26504

Is there a way to zoom the Visual Studio text editor with a keyboard shortcut?

Yesterday I found myself needing to zoom my Visual Studio text editor and was without a mouse (don't ask). Typically I do this by holding down CTRL and scrolling the mouse wheel. I also couldn't figure out how to tab into the area where you can specify your zoom level in the lower left hand corner of the text editor window.

zoom in the lower left corner of the text editor window

So I guess I have two questions:

  1. Is there a menu setting somewhere that I could have navigated to via the keyboard to set my zoom level?
  2. Even better is there a similar keyboard command to holding CTRL and scrolling the mouse wheel?

Upvotes: 140

Views: 165362

Answers (6)

EreDhan
EreDhan

Reputation: 39

Just an update for 2020-Sep. Ver 1.49. Win 10:

From keyboard shortcuts in-app ( Ctrl + k Ctrl + s .. or .. File Menu, Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts):

Zoom In: Ctrl + = .. or .. Ctrl + Numpad_Add .. or .. Ctrl + Shft + =

Zoom Out: Ctrl + - .. or .. Ctrl + Numpad_Subtract .. or .. Ctrl + Shft + -

Reset Zoom: Ctrl + Numpad_0

NB: for VS-Code (may/Not be same ViZStd)

Upvotes: 1

vivek86
vivek86

Reputation: 753

The default accessibility setting by Microsoft, if they havent been tampered or changed are:

Zoom In --> Ctrl + +

Zoom Out --> Ctrl + -

Here is the link to the official Microsoft's VS code accessibility page

Hope it helps someone else

Upvotes: -1

Emilio
Emilio

Reputation: 408

If anyone is looking for an answer to the first question (as I was), you can hit Ctrl+F2, then hit the Tab key three times. This works in VS 2019, but doesn't appear to work in 2017.

Upvotes: 4

Leonardo
Leonardo

Reputation: 240

Visual Studio Code Linux keyboard shortcuts for zoom in/out:

  • in: Ctrl + =
  • out: Ctrl + -

Visual Studio Code Linux keyboard shortcuts

Upvotes: 8

chinookf
chinookf

Reputation: 310

In my case, ReSharper reassigned Ctrl + Shift + , (aka Ctrl + Shift + < ) to ReSharper's Recent Edits command, and I wanted to reset it back to Visual Studio 2012's zoom out.

To do that, go to Tools -> Options. Under Environment -> Keyboard, remove the Ctrl + Shift + , hotkey from the ReSharper.ReSharper_GoToRecentEdits command (or any other commands), and assign the View.ZoomOut command back to Ctrl + Shift + , (use either Global or TextEditor mode).

Upvotes: 17

Brandon
Brandon

Reputation: 69973

I don't know if there is a menu option, but there are keyboard shortcuts to set the zoom level.

ctrl+shift+. to Zoom In

ctrl+shift+, to Zoom Out

Upvotes: 227

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