why the fonts in word 2013 are blurry?

Anonymous
2013-01-31T05:32:47+00:00

rendering the fonts in word 2013 is horrible! 

Will Microsoft change it?

This is a similar problem like with Internet Explorer 9 & 10.

What is going on?

IE8 works good, Office 2010 also...

Then?

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-02-07T22:33:51+00:00

Check under File>Options>Advanced>Display and check the box for "Use subpixel positioning to smooth fonts on screen" and also try changing the setting for "Disable hardware graphics acceleration"

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-13T21:59:23+00:00

    Just "upgraded" to Office 2013 from 2010, and 5 minutes in I start thinking I need glasses. Until I open up my old Notepad and see everything is still nice and crispy there. Say what? 140$ for a program that shows blurry letters as opposed to the old Notepad!?

    Found this thread, but alas, no matter how I change "hardware graphics acceleration", "subpixel positioning" or "cleartype" the letters are still blurry in Office 2013. Sure I can see a difference depending on the settings, but the letters still look alive crawling around on my screen. I'm on a desktop, Windows 7, running 1920x1080, everything's updated.

    So, Microsoft, update?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-02T08:16:23+00:00

    Task List for New Microsoft CEO

    1. Find out who is responsible for the dreadful blurry text in IE11 and Office 2013 on desktops.
    2. Fire them.
    3. Allocate some engineers/programmers with a bit of intelligence to fix the problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-13T21:50:52+00:00

    Unfortunately the fonts still look fuzzy and pixelated on my 23" 1920x1080 screen.

    Any other suggestions?

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-02T22:41:45+00:00

    I do not understand why they could not make a simple option where the user could have to choose whether he wants his application to be beautiful or a little demanding in resources. I'm not a lover of beauty but it is really torture for the eyes.

    Someone in charge "drank the coolaid", believing that "one size fits all" is a good idea for Windows.  But in my experience especially in computing, anyone who believes it is proven to be an iD-10-T.

    Downgrading a 20+" desktop to the display quality suitable for a 7" smartphone, yup, that proves me right.

    It would have been trivially easy for them to make switching between desktop and 'metro' easy.

    It would have been trivially easy for them to make switching between the Ribbon gooey and Menu.

    Too bad they didn't, sales of Office and Windows would have been so much better.

    Hopefully the new CEO will be smart enough to hit the ground with his hat.

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