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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"
Right you find your suit. No problem. I installed hundreds of users the at it time popular OpenOffice (now Libre took its place). But MS knows that for wast majority MS Office is only option. Yes, it can be done in Libre too. But is there any school that teaches on Libre or adult Computer school that teaches Libre? No, they do MS. Smart move from MS though. So anyone not computer savvy, will call for MS option.
Regarding W10, I expect it will be same s with Vista/7, where both are essentially the same OS, but 7 is totally re-aranged and optimized. Finished by other words. Start menu is no issue with 8 (there was start8 app from day one for this OS. But that solve nothing. Based on early releases, 10 will return usability, speed of common tasks, handiness, etc. You must understand 8 was released because of tablets and phone, not much with desktops in mind. They know much of the desktop users, and especially business users adapt slowly. 8.1 is "patch", 10 will be thought out product.
I use Linux too, for fun. But Premiere Pro, CorelDraw and other stuff I use, do not work on it, yet. I know someone will bring alternatives on the table. I looked through all of them already. But I work 15 years on that software. There is no wish to change whole computer world on its head now. That's my point. We are dependent on MS will. They won.
Dear Doug,
You saved me from going absolutely insane. Thank you for your help. Don't understand why with the army of engineers M. has, they're not making Office 13 easier and more intuitive to use. Lost 3 hours dealing with error messages while trying to install the softwarre, before being helped by a technician, and configuring Word to a display that won't make me cringe.
Sigh.
All is well.
Hi,
The strange thing about the blurry fonts in Word 2013 is that when I am working on a Word document on my Windows 7 PC and go into the footer the text above, that you are not then working on, becomes clear!!
When you come out of the footer and go back onto the page above the text reverts back to looking like you have written it with a pen that is running out of ink!
If the text can be 'sharp' when you are in the footer why can't it remain so when you are working on the main page?
"If the text can be 'sharp' when you are in the footer why can't it remain so when you are working on the main page?"
Because -obviously- this product is utterly broken in itself. No Matter the operating system used, be it 7,8,8.1 or the 10 preview. Microsoft has issued Gigabytes Patches for Office 2013 since release and still the fonts are driving me mad.Updating Graphic Drivers and OS , nothing fixed it.
I have reverted back to the 2007 and 2010 versions of Office. Problem solved.
Let's hope for Office 2015 which is now in the making.