Just like the title says, I'm trying to change the font size in Notepad++ to what it should be.
I don't know why it's so huge.
How To Change Font Size In Notepad++
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Related Solutions
Ctrl and NUMPAD +/NUMPAD - or mouse wheel to zoom in/out
Edit: Or to achieve exactly what you asked for...
Settings > Style Configurator. Under Font Style you can set the font and size
Update August 2019: in newer versions of Windows 10, you can increase only the text size in the new 'Make text bigger' option:
Settings > Ease of Access > Vision > Display > Make text bigger
Settings > System > Display > Change the size of text, apps and other items
You can adjust the size there.
Or if you want to specifically choose what you want the text size to change for, go to Control Panel > Appearance and Personalisation > Display > Make text and other items larger or smaller.
Here you can change the font size of title bars, menus, message boxes, palette titles, icons or tooltips:
Best Answer
You can check out the "Reduce" option in Settings > Preferences > General > Tab Bar (section).
In Notepad++ (6.5) the size setting for tab labels is in Settings > Preferences > Tab Settings, although this appears to be a setting for formatting within documents.
Hopefully one of those settings will help.