Can't zoom out in visual studio code

Question

I accidentally hit CTRL + = and my IDE is too much zoomed now. I tried the shortcut to zoom out as stated in the official vscode doc, (CTRL + -) but this is not working.

Some help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Answer 1

On-Screen keyboard did not work for me. But managed to click the reset zoom setting under View>Appearance>Reset Zoom.

Zoom Out option was not working. However, Zoom was reset after clicking Reset Zoom option.

Answer 2

Found the solution by opening the on-screen keyboard, activating the numeric pad, and using its -. The - is not working on my laptop.

Answer 3

For that press ctrl+shift+p then type "resetZoom" without inverted commas its work for me.

Answer 4

On my installation the keyboard shortcuts are working as stated in documentation (CTRL+-). For a workaround you can perhaps use the menu items under View > Zoom Out as also written in documentation in Chapter Zoom.

Answer 5

You can reset your zoom by ctrl+0. By this command your zoom setting will reset

Answer 6

It's simple I just found out, hold ctrl + -. This should zoom out and zoom in again just do what you did to zoom in. There are many ways to do it, this is just one of them.

Answer 7

You can try CTRL + Numpad Subtract

Answer 8

I found I had installed the Visual Studio keybindings extension, which conflicted with VS Code. Removing that extension solved the problem for me.

Alternative you can check your keybindings and re-assign manually. Ctrl+K then Ctrl+S to open key bindings, where you can search or manually inspect and edit all.

Answer 9

use the ctrl+ or ctrl-which is next to your right not those + and - which is for volume on the top of your keyboard

Answer 10

Visual Studio Code Linux keyboard shortcuts &

Visual Studio Code Windows keyboard shortcuts for zoom in/out:

In My case,

in: Ctrl + =
out: Ctrl + -