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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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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"
I am running Windows 8 Pro with a secondary extended monitor. The first Word 2013 documents I open I literally gasped. It is THAT bad. I haven't seen fonts this bad in 20 years. Want to work with a document at 100% zoom? Forget it. Unreadable. How the **** does something like this even make it out the door? Oh yeah, this is the same company that thought getting rid of the Start button was a good idea. I tried the hardware acceleration hack suggested here. No help at all.
By the way, fonts in Access and Outlook look wonderful. Did you guys forget to break those too?
In my case it helped a lot to go through the System wide Clear-Type font rendering wizard. Just go to your start screen and search for Clear Type in the settings section.
Thanks, Ronald, that definitely helped!
I just installed Office '13 yesterday (testing it at my office before we give it to a bunch of people to make sure we don't run into any major problems.) So far, I've been woefully unimpressed. I have both Office '10 and '13 on my machine, so I can view the exact same document in both formats. It unquestionably looks better in Office '10. Playing with the Clear-Type font rendering helped, but it still looks inferior to the '10 version.
What am I missing here? Is there anything special about '13 (keeping in mind that we run a secure network and will not be using the cloud system at all.) Should I go back to '10, or are there some other improvements that I just haven't noticed yet?
Tried your suggestions - the Office 2013 fonts still look bad !!!
I have Windows 8 Pro. While the system 2 years old the drivers for my graphics card pretty fresh and Win 8.
In addition to the poor fonts the colors in the three Office Theme's are equaly poor. Really hate it in Outlook. Have lots of text of varying sizes on my typical screen when looking at my mail.
Did I mention I hate it? Guess I would like to see you you call "OK" ?
Was showing one of my kids the package yesterday and offering her one of my 5 installs. As soon as I showed her the Outlook 2013 she instantly declinced my offer of free (to her) upgrade for the Office package. She would not guess there would be enough improvements to over come the boring look.
In my case it helped a lot to go through the System wide Clear-Type font rendering wizard. Just go to your start screen and search for Clear Type in the settings section.