Powerpoint 2019. I usually have the notes pane open when in "normal" view. And the text in the notes pane is small. when I'm in the Notes Page view, it's FINE - it's 12 point and that's what I want.




Suddenly, this afternoon, I opened Powerpoint and the text in the notes pane is BIG. It's still fine in the Notes Page.


I've wasted the last hour trying to find a way to make it smaller. I've found SEVERAL comments that insist that there's a pair of "A"s in the bottom corner of the pane to change the size, but THERE ARE NOT. Nothing anywhere that I can find.


HOW do I have the text displayed smaller in the notes pane of the normal window and NOT do anything to the actual font of the notes?

You could try this: in Normal View, click in the page note section, then click the View tab in the Ribbon >> click Zoom >> adjust to 100%.

I don't remember for sure what I did, but I found something that changed the size of the text in the notes area - it MAY have been the wheel on the mouse.


Whatever it was, was NOT intuitively obvious.

Oh my goodness, you angel. It absolutely WAS the wheel on the mouse. This was driving me crazy, thank you!

That was driving me mad this morning!
Thanks for the hint about the mouse wheel.
I had to use the mouse wheel + Ctrl in the end.
The wonders of the Microsoft world....