How to set permanent Zoom factor in Visual Studio Editor 2012 tabs

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Pankaj Agarwal picture Pankaj Agarwal · May 28, 2013 · Viewed 24.5k times · Source

If I set the zoom of a tab to 120%, then when opening new tabs, Visual Studio 2012 should open them with a 120% zoom factor and not 100% (the default).

But when reopening, Visual Studio the Zoom Percentage should be preserved (120%).

Is there is any way to solve the issue?

Answer

pje picture pje · Apr 25, 2014

If you are simply zooming so the text in your editor is bigger, then why not just increase the font size?

Open TOOLS -> OPTIONS, under the 'Environment' tab select 'Fonts and Colors', and change the font size to whatever you want.

--edit--

As @Anovative pointed out in his comment and answer below, there is now a way to set default zoom within Visual Studio 2013 (and subsequent versions I'd assume).

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