Expanding/contracting timeline shortcuts. "-" and "+" do not work.

Question

I have purchased Adobe Premiere Elements 13. One thing I need to do a lot during my project is expand/contract the timeline in Expert view. Everywhere I look online I am directed to using "+" or "-" to do this.
However, these buttons do not appear to do anything - even in combination with CTRL or ALT. What am I missing?
thanks
Ed

Answer 1

edwardsyvester
What are your expectations - expand the Timeline or to increase the Track size?
With your focus on the -+ Zoom Out Zoom In above the Timeline, check out the slider.
When you first open the project and import to the Expert workspace - default position
When you move the slider all the way to the right (max)
And, to the immediate right of the Render button is an icon "Fit to Visible Timeline" (shortcut \) if you need to use that.
Are you saying that none of that happens when you move the slider to max (Zoom In) to min (Zoom Out)?
Or are you looking for the Large track size which can be obtained by right clicking near the track name and selecting from the drop
down menu Track Size...Large? The following is screenshot 1 with the default location for the zoom slider and with Track Size = Large.
Please review and consider. If the above does not address your situation, then we will go for the deletion of
the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file.
Local Disk C
Users
Owner
AppData
Roaming
Adobe
Premiere Elements
13.0
and in the 13.0 Folder is the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file that you delete. If that does not work, then you delete the whole 13.0
Folder in which the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file exists. Make sure that you are not working with hidden folders enabled.
Looking forward to your results.
ATR