Increasing font size on Windows help file (CHM)

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Published on 2009-08-28T20:09:03Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 14:05 UTC
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Is there a way to increase the font size on a Windows Help file (CHM file) with recent versions of Internet Explorer? You used to be able to, but I think after IE7 the option was removed from the UI.

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