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[Win7 Tip] Change font size in Sticky Notes

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Written on:July 26, 2009
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Back in April while I was still planning the rebranding and subsequent re-launch of WinExtra I was still writing a bunch of Windows related stuff at what has become Shooting At Bubbles (most of which will be moved here). One of the more popular posts was the one I wrote lamenting some of the deficiencies of the Sticky Notes app in Windows 7.

Well today that post paid off in one sense in that someone was good enough to post a great tip when it comes to using Sticky Notes. While we still can’t change the font being used other than via cut and pasting of text we can now at least change the font size

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The way you do this is as follows:

Ctrl + Shift + > makes the font bigger

Ctrl + Shift + < makes the font smaller

And that’s it

Enjoy.

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Keva

please tell me what i am doing wrong...it doesnt work for me :(

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xi

Even though this is not directly related to changing the font size it is something I want to sdhare. I found a nice freeware tool that expands the functionality of the Windows 7 Sticky Notes. With it you can have notes not only on the desktop but also at every application window you would like to. The tool is from bitsmithy.com an can be downloaded from their website http://bitsmithy.com

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xi

Even though this is not directly related to changing the font size it is something I want to sdhare. I found a nice freeware tool that expands the functionality of the Windows 7 Sticky Notes. With it you can have notes not only on the desktop but also at every application window you would like to. The tool is from bitsmithy.com an can be downloaded from their website http://bitsmithy.com

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Jermz

It seems that the font can be set only by pasting in text with the font you already want.

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Jermz

It seems that the font can be set only by pasting in text with the font you already want.

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Mary

This info was very helpful. I was getting frustrated at not being able to change the font size. Something I was doing was "accidentally" making the font bigger but I could not find any way to make the font smaller. Thank you!

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Mary

This info was very helpful. I was getting frustrated at not being able to change the font size. Something I was doing was "accidentally" making the font bigger but I could not find any way to make the font smaller. Thank you!

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albert

actually i want to change font name to another font.
help me pls

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Kyle

Write up your notes in wordpad, choose the font, size etc there. Then, when you copy the text back to stickynotes they will have the new font!

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yel

Thanks for the tip. It made me test a little more
On (swiss) german keyboard it's Ctrl-Shift and ';' or ':'

Here are some more:
Ctrl-Shift +
'L' Lists (multiple forms!)
'A' Capitalize

Ctrl +
'c' copy
'v' paste
'x' cut
'z' undo
'a' select all
'r' right align
'e' center align
'l' left align
'b' Bold
'i' italic
't' strike through
'u' underlign
'1' single line space
'2' double line space
'5' 1.5 line space

it's getting really usefull ;-)

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albert

actually i want to change font name to another font.
help me pls

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Kyle

Write up your notes in wordpad, choose the font, size etc there. Then, when you copy the text back to stickynotes they will have the new font!

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Anthon

You can also use ctrl+mouse scroll up/down to change the font size for the whole note.

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