Zoom in and out effect anywhere on your Mac’s screen

Well, to a Mac colleague of mine, I was boasting off a trick that I learnt recently from – Minimising windows in OS X. But I was defeated at my own trick when he did something – zoom in and out on his screen.

Here is the trick – Hold the Ctrl key while scrolling with two fingers. If you do not know how to scroll with two fingers, you better learn that (it is a real productivity booster). The TouchPad of a Macbook allows you to tip on with one finger and scroll with the another finger. It did took me some practice to get use to using two fingers on the touchpad/trackpad.

Do some practice and you should be able to zoom in and out. Enjoy!

  • Lachia

    WOW!! I can’t believe I didn’t know that trick!!! I’ve been trying to figure out a quick way to accomplish something very similar, and now I don’t have to :)

    Thanks!

    PS-love that you posted the vista wallpapers, I work in the turfgrass industry and have been drooling over some of their grass pics … thanks again!

  • http://www.brajeshwar.com/ Brajeshwar

    Thanks for appreciating the Vista Wallpaper uploads.

  • jgjgjg

    great one, but sometimes its a little tedious having to scroll in and then scroll out when your done, for a variation see if you like this better, try option command 8 to automatically zoom in to the mouse or cursor, press again and it returns to normal. i use it all the time for small text on my high res screen and you can still move the mouse to move around the zoomed area.

    enjoy and thanks.

  • brijesh

    how can i zoom in excel without mouse?