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#### 3.1.2 Zooming

You can zoom the chart in and out using the commands on the Zoom pane. The zoom drop-down allows setting a specific zoom value. However, the easiest way to zoom is to use the mouse wheel with the Ctrl key pressed.

You can easily select an appropriate zoom factor by clicking certain Zoom pane buttons. Overview adjusts zoom to fit the entire chart into the window. This is useful to get an overview of a chart. Fit to width changes the zoom factor to fit the width of the chart to the current window. Finally, Original Size sets the magnification back to 100%.2

You can also make Msc-generator apply one of the above three zoom adjustments after every update, page change or window re-size by selecting checkboxes besides the above command buttons.

You can also view the chart in full screen mode, by pressing F11. Mouse zooming and panning works in this mode, as well. A small toolbar enables you to flip pages, return to the all pages view or to toggle Auto Split (if applicable to the chart, see below). You can exit full screen mode by pressing Escape.

#### Footnotes

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Msc-generator applies a maximum zoom factor for the Overview and the Fit to width modes, in order to avoid a small chart being enormously magified. This defaults to 150%. On very large screens this may prove to be a tool small factor - thus it is possible to increase this value on the Preferences category of the ribbon using the Max Auto Zoom edit box.