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
    2015-04-01T13:08:10+00:00

    It doesn't fix anything in my Sony Vaio VPCF1 Win 8.1 x64 machine... still blurry.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-02T00:34:43+00:00

    Same here on my desktop.

    None of the nonsense repeated ad nauseam in this and other threads fixes the problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-02T10:58:56+00:00

    Same here on my desktop.

    None of the nonsense repeated ad nauseam in this and other threads fixes the problem.

    Of course not. The product is broken and no end user's voodo magic or placebo advice from selfclaimed experts will ever fix it.

    If the Vendor does not deliver a version with changed rendering backend you have no options.

    So either give up on it, change to older versions, hope for the next version or start looking for products from other companies ( the same advice goes for Windows as OS. )

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-02T11:29:46+00:00

    Correct.

    But I found interesting thing:

    Last day I wanted to show my wife this issue. So I created one random text (docx with default 2013 version). Than I opened Word2013 on my left monitor, and Word2003 od my right one. Than I dragged and dropped previously created file to both programs and I wondered WHY both text at same magnification looks identical?? 

    Guess what! Word2013 had color clear-type... How I see that? I use snipping tool to capture part of text, than I open saved snip with picture viewer and zoom in. 

    NOT  SOLUTION, but rather proof of software BUG in Word 2013, which nobody cares to fix! 

    See screenshot:

    • First line is "file opened by double click"
    • Second line is "same file dragged and dropped into already opened file"

    Than I double clicked on insert object, which opens original file in new Word window, where "inserted" was added. So If same file is inserted into another file, we have proper clear-type. If opened directly, we have not. That speaks for itself: Microsoft could enable clear-type if wanted to. 

    regarding other type of devices (smart phones where pixel density is high enough that nobody will notice) they could "scan" where file is opened and adjust Word accordingly.

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