Sometimes the font in Trados Studio documents appears to be too small and inconvenient to work with. Like this:
The font in Trados Studio can be increased. Unfortunately, it must be done in a non-trivial way.
Press File > Options > on the left panel and choose Font Adaptation. On the right panel, you will see four number fields: for minimum and maximum font size of text sections in source and target languages. Increase these numbers. They may differ for different languages (a language choice field is in this very dialog window below). Obviously, the maximum number must be bigger than the minimum one.
We recommend 12 for minimum font size and 14 for maximum font size:
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