google chrome - gmail text window gets very wide beyond screen view, very frustrating

My Gmail mail window getting very wide, off the screen wide. A person replied with an answer and said to ctrl + roll down and then reset.

But can someone please explain what "roll down" means? I have not "roll down" key on my computer and don't see any explanation when I google it. I am having this wide screen problem in Google Chrome ...

I have the bar at the bottom but I would really like a way to resize the gmail text window ... when I resize the chrome window, it just hides the text in my gmail message that I am typing.

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4 Answers

Change the Display Mode (gear in the upper right) to Touch-enabled then change it back to your preferred Display mode.

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The action you're referring to is Ctrl + scrolling down on your mouse's scroll wheel. This will zoom out and hopefully make your content fit.

A similar method of the same action would be Ctrl + -.

Without a mouse to "roll" down to change display size, you can press and hold Ctrl while you press the keys with "+" or "-" (plus or minus signs) to increase or decrease size.

@David Worry suggested a work-around of using the pop-up editor. This fixes the width problem for a new message being composed.

However, when replying to a message, the original message is still too wide, and hard to read.

I found a simple work-around for viewing the original message, while writing a reply:
copy-and-paste the original message into Word.

This way I can read the original message in Word, while writing a reply in the pop-up window.

In my test for this, Word displayed the original formatting ok, e.g., bulleted lists, underlining, hyperlinks, etc.

This is a hack solution, but I haven't found a good solution, after some looking around.