Visual Studio 2010 default zoom level

Question

Is there a way to set the default zoom level in Visual Studio 2010? The problem is that I find font size 10 to be too small, but font size 11 is too big. It just so happens that 90% zoom level with font size 11 gives the perfect size I am looking for. I would like to be able to have VS automatically always zoom the editor to 90%.

Answer 1

This extension works great for me:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6a7a0b57-7059-470d-bcfa-60ceb78dc752

Presentation Zoom

This extension creates a global zoom level so that if you zoom a single window, all editor instances will be updated to that zoom level.

Answer 2

As far as I am aware you cannot set a default value for the zoom level. Instead, consider setting the default font size for the text editor.

Answer 3

Global Zoom Level Extension is very good as well

This extension causes the selected zoom level in the editor window to be applied globally across all (zoomable) editor windows. The zoom level is saved and reapplied across sessions, so it does not have to be manually reset every time Visual Studio is launched.

Answer 4

You can also use the keyboard. The default bindings are:

• ctrl + shift + . (zoom in)
• ctrl + shift + , (zoom out)