why the fonts in word 2013 are blurry?

".. .A looked closely than how pixels are aliased in both programs. in 2003 aliasing is made with COLOR pixels around black font, so from distance text looks sharper and lighter. But in 2013 aliasing is made only with grey pixels around black font. What looks as bolder and less sharp text looking from distance. "

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Yes; exactly this is the point and also the reason why there is no solution to it but to switch to other Office Suits.

Microsoft's Office 2007 and 2010 are useable, both in Win7 and 8.x , Word/Excel etc have crisp clear fonts like the Desktop on Win Vista/7 Cleartype RGB ). Not so starting with Office 2013 or the cloud based 365 App ( or even the now-free OneNote Desktop app ), this ugly font problem resides within the Apps themselves.

With the Introduction of Win8.x's "Metrofication"  and the "Tablets are cooler than PCs"  hype Microsoft abandonded this proven rendering in favor of the **** grayscale hinting all across their products, Office,Windows, Visual Studio etc . Maybe they really thought nobody uses Laptops and HD Monitors these days any longer ? ;-)

"Yet another thing in 2013 office is not great. "

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The very same font-rendering issue makes Windows 8.x itself look so out of order ( Apps/Metro-Part and InternetExplorer of the OS use grayscale Hinting , Desktop Side uses RGB Cleartype ) - not even fixed in the current Windows 10 preview.. ; To topple that : Metro-Apps scale text differentely than the Desktop, Resolutions over 1366x768 will make Metro text look strange but the Desktop great, Resolutions under leads to blurry text on Desktop but perfect Metro .. 

Maybe Microsoft gets their products fixed to the quality it once was with Office /Windows vNext..

They should engage  experts in "USEABILITY" and "READABILITY" before the products get released.

Thank you for suggestion. It does not help.

I came here because I searched what is about my fonts. I have both 2003 and 2013 office isntalled. I went to open some text in 2003 just because I realized something is not ok. 

Than I opened same document in each program and put them side by side on two identical IPS displays, with same (150%) magnification, as I normally have on my 23'' lcd. I already switched off subpixel positioning, but that changed little. Word 2003 was better looking and offer less eye fatique, than 2013. Period. 

Than I used Snipping tool and make a Snip of both texts. A looked closely than how pixels are aliased in both programs. in 2003 aliasing is made with COLOR pixels around black font, so from distance text looks sharper and lighter. But in 2013 aliasing is made only with grey pixels around black font. What looks as bolder and less sharp text looking from distance. 

Yet another thing in 2013 office is not great. 

Thanks to this post, I know there is nothing to do, so I will stop loosing time searching for a hack and using my 2003 word for most thing, regardles I have Office 2013 installed too.

Here with IE11(except error-fail javascript in forum of Google, open only in compatibility mode), the characters is normal here. But the MS Word 2013 use inverted subpixels and nothind do to fix the problem, I also went back to Office 2010.

I did exactly as you suggested a while back and reverted to Office 2010 and it all looks fine on Windows 8.1.

It is also worth noting that IE11 behaves the same way as Office 2013. Both desktop and metro versions of Internet Explorer 11 ignore the OS settings and display dreadful blurry grayscale rendered text.

That is why Firefox is my default browser.

Microsoft's stubborn intransigence in relation to this fundamental usability issue is a spectacular demonstration of how to alienate users and lose customers.