Setting the Zoom Level
00:00 The first setting I chose to use for this video course is the window zoom level. This can come in handy if you want to share your screen for your colleagues in a remote session or for me when I’m having a video course presenting VS Code to you and I want to have everything a little bit bigger because depending on which screen you’re watching the video course on right now, it might be a bit small what you’re seeing.
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So VS Code got you covered and you can go into the curly braces of this JSON and start with quotes and then type window. And as you can see, VS Code already suggests a few settings.
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And there you want to use window.zoomLevel
00:47 By default, zoom level is zero, and for this video course, I want to choose three.
00:56 Once you press Command+S or Control+S to save the file, you see that the whole interface changes. The Windows zoom level really tackles the whole user interface, so it’s not just the font you are seeing, it’s basically any interface item.
01:14 If this is too big for you, you can of course set the zoom level to one, save, try it out, see how it looks, or set it to two, save and see how it looks. I think I will actually go with two.
01:29 Generally, for the video courses I’m using, even Windows zoom level four, when I really want to zoom in on the code. But since today it’s more about Visual Studio Code as a whole zoom level two should be fine.
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Loris on July 21, 2024
There are keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and/or out that can be handy:
Ctrl++Cmd++Ctrl+-Cmd+-