Icon Size - Desktop
On the screen, shared with thirty colleagues, was a single, massive Excel icon stretching across a grey void, while the Recycle Bin tumbled into oblivion.
"Just do it, Arthur," he muttered. "You’re tired of pressing your nose against the monitor."
But his euphoria lasted exactly three seconds.
He clicked Medium . Nothing.
But in his panic, he had missed the CTRL key. He was just scrolling the page. The icons remained massive, staring at him like judgmental eyes.
He clicked.
"Yes?"
Arthur blinked. "What?"
The icons seemed to sense his fear. They were too big to move easily. He tried to click and drag the 'Recycle Bin' to the corner, but it was heavy—it took three seconds just to lurch across the screen, knocking over a Word document shortcut in the process.
Arthur Penhaligon was a man of order. His life was a grid. His taxes were filed in February, his spice rack was alphabetized, and his desktop background—a soothing gradient of slate grey—was pristine. desktop icon size
He right-clicked again, sweating now. He selected View > Small icons .
“Arthur, I love what you’ve done with the place. Very... avant-garde.”
"I... I was just testing a new display setting," Arthur said into the silence. On the screen, shared with thirty colleagues, was