There are several ways of minimising the appearance of scrollbars on your browser. Generally speaking, vertical bars are more desirable than horizontal ones as they mimic the natural act of reading. The Grammourpuss website is designed to eliminate the horizontals on a setting of 800X600 but the verticals will inevitably appear on some settings (including our own!).

To perform a similar task in Netscape, click View, and then Show, and uncheck the components that you don't want to see.

IE gives you a choice of five sizes. To find them, click on View, then on Text Size, and you'll see what it is set at presently. Making it smaller will free up more space; making it larger will make it easier to read. Click View, Toolbars, and then Customize, and you can Add a font size button to your browser, should you wish to make regular alterations.

In Netscape, click view and Decrease font or Increase Font.

• Grammourpuss's website is designed such that larger text sizes will only make the page grow vertically and not horizontally, by stretching the height of the table but fixing its width.

1. Click Start, Settings, Control panel, then the Display icon. Drag the resulting box over to the left where you can see it, and you might want to make the entire browser window smaller by clicking on the resize button in the top left, as the new box will vanish each time you scroll. Click on Advanced Properties and Performance and then find the check that asks whether you want to implement the changes without restarting the computer and click it. Then click OK and you are back to properties. Now move the slider so that it shows 800X600 pixels (or more if you have a large text size set) but BEWARE. Lower specification computers might go blank if you specify too demanding a setting, i.e., a large number of colours AND a high resolution. If this happens, you can restart the computer in safe mode by holding down F6 as the computer reboots, and follow the above procedure to revert to the original settings. This is unlikely to happen in more modern PCs but it gave me a scare once! When you are happy with the resolution and number of colours, click Apply. Your screen will turn off briefly and then come back on again resized and, hopefully, optimised.
2. The second method is best done only when the magenta area above has been done, but is much quicker. All you do is Right click the little icon of a monitor which appears next to the time in your taskbar's systems tray. Then, simply select the desired resolution and number of colours and click it. At the very bottom, Adjust display properties will launch the box used in the instructions above.