How do I make only periods on my screen appear bigger?

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Annievincent - 28 Jul 2005 19:58 GMT

For ease of reading on my screen, I want only the periods a lot larger and
bolder, i.e., Lucinda Console, etc. We use Times New Roman 12 at work, and
the periods colons are so faint I can barely see them. I do not want to
enlarge everything. I'm trying to find an autocorrect option to do this. I
created a macro to do after the fact, but I'm not thrilled with this option.
There has to be an autocorrect option that when a period is typed it is
changed to another bolder font.

Thank you for your help!

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Doug Robbins - 28 Jul 2005 20:26 GMT

Format a period the way that you want it and then select it (alone) The
from the Tools menu select Auto Correct Options and go to the AutoCorrect
tab. You should see a period in the "With:" control. Click on the
"Formatted text" radio button and the period will be replaced with the one
that you formatted. Enter a period into the "Repace:" control and then
click on the Add button.

Note, you will probably need some way of replacing all of these formatted
periods with ordinary ones when you print the document.

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> For ease of reading on my screen, I want only the periods a lot larger and
> bolder, i.e., Lucinda Console, etc. We use Times New Roman 12 at work, and
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> Thank you for your help!

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David Sisson - 28 Jul 2005 21:04 GMT

Yes, alas, I suffer for the same problem. I fixed my problem by buying
a pair of reading glasses!

What! You don't NEED reading glasses. Yep, that's what I said, too.
Because the screen isn't blury to me, but I have trouble distinguishing
a comma from a period. The reading glasses improved the CONTRAST
enough to solve my problem.

I also routinely change the screen from Print view to Normal view,
which increases the size of the document.

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