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
    2014-06-01T19:33:24+00:00

    Read this article, it explains  why Windows 8.x and  Office 2013/365 Looks different: 

    "Office 2013 has undergone a substantial shift to a relatively new display facility, Direct2D, and a new text facility, DirectWrite. These are the display facilities that are used on Windows Phone 8, the new Windows RT slates, and optionally on Windows 7 & 8. Up through Office 2010, the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and complex script support by Uniscribe were used."

    full Story :

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/archive/2012/07/29/office-adopts-new-windows-display-technology.aspx

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-01T20:15:47+00:00

    Thanks for the link. It confirms that MS is pandering to the phone crowd. They have DUMBED down my Office running on a 27 inch monitor so it can be used on a carpy little 7 inch screen.  Thanks for nothing!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-13T05:57:31+00:00

    No solutions on this thread, but I would confirm a couple of things.

    1. I am running Windows 8.1 and have BOTH Office 2010 and 2013 running. The difference is VERY noticeable.
    2. an easy way to compare this, other than screen captures, is to use the magnifier built within Windows.

    2.1 Open both versions of word.

    2.2 Have same doc at 100%

    2.3 Use the magnifier, which takes the screen and blows it up. (not re-rendering it).

    2.4 The difference is then VERY, VERY apparent. The fonts are rendered completely differently. Blown up they one looks like a bad pixelated low res bitmap. The other looks better (2010).

    None of the solutions mentioned here (some mentioned multiple times) work.

    I am a former Microsoftie and I am appalled.

    This combined with the way that the new markup/track changes works makes this unusable.

    Sigh.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-25T09:30:40+00:00

    Have the same problem. I tried every(!) possible fix mentioned here. None of them worked.

    I am running Office 2013 on 2 completely different machines, with different hardware (both graphics card and monitor) and different OS:

    Machine 1: Win 7, Office 2013

    Machine 2: Win 8.1, Office 2013

    In every(!) other application the fonts look fine. In every Office 2013 application the fonts look blurry. 

    I can't believe that MS didn't provide a working fix so far :(

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