Learn English – “Zoom out the map”? “Zoom the map out”

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On a website, I show a Google Map with markers. I have some text that says

If you can't see them all, zoom the map out to reveal the rest.

This sounds kind of lame, I also considered:

If you can't see them all, zoom out the map to reveal the rest.

But that sounds even worse. Can anyone offer a more pleasing alternative?

Best Answer

The problem in both your examples is that zoom in/out isn't transitive and therefore shouldn't be used with a direct object. I'd say:

If you can't see all the markers on the map, zoom out.

You don't really need to say "to reveal the rest" because it's implied by the protasis (if you can't see them) that the apodosis (zoom out) is the solution to the problem.

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