Program font size

My Mother-in-law somehow managed to change the font size in the applications. Like Mail messages and excel documents, etc. I am pretty sure there is no system-wide font size so can anyone think of what she could have done and conversely what I can do to fix it? I know she didn't go in to each application preferences and change the font manually, she wouldn't know how to do that.

She may have turned on magnification in Universal Access (System Preferences - Universal Access) Click the follow to change magnification: *Control , Option, Up Arrow or Down Arrow.*
Roger

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I think you're right. I also face the same problem. I want my reciepient to view my email as time new roman 12, but this format is too small on mail for myself to type and see. Is there any way to fix this. Thanks in advance.
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Big Buttons
Default FullZoom Level
NoSquint.
It only works for that page of that web site, as soon as you leave you start all over again.
Can't we just say Firefox messed up and needs to revert to the way it used to work without have to do ANYTHING to adjust any sizing.
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